Does copyright still help hold back Martin Luther King’s dream?

The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s march on Washington seems a good time to resurrect, as many columnists have, the controversy over the copyright status of his “I have a dream” speech, delivered 50 years ago yesterday on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The conundrum was typified by the 1999 court case Estate [...]

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