You can also sing the happy birthday song for him on MLK's birthday, in defiance of copyright.<p>This is even more apt than you think:<p>"In the 1987 documentary Eyes on the Prize about the US Civil Rights Movement, there was a birthday party scene in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s discouragement began to lift. After its initial release, the film was unavailable for sale or broadcast for many years because of the cost of clearing many copyrights, of which "Happy Birthday to You" was one. Grants in 2005 for copyright clearances[15] have allowed PBS to rebroadcast the film as recently as February 2008.[16]"<p>[1]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You</a>
While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice. Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War.<p>In his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, which he delivered at New York’s Riverside Church on April 4th, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated, Dr. King called the United States, quote, “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Time magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi.” The Washington Post said King, quote, “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.”<p>Today, we’ll let you decide. We play an excerpt of Dr. King’s speech “Beyond Vietnam.”<p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/16/special_dr_martin_luther_king_jr" rel="nofollow">http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/16/special_dr_martin_luth...</a>
One of the most famous (perhaps <i>the</i> most famous) speeches in our televised history...and now come to think of it, I don't think I've ever heard it in its entirety.
> "[The video is] copyrighted so what we are doing technically is illegal"<p>> "We think we have an excellent argument for Fair Use since it is clearly part of political speech and we are not making any money off it."<p>So which one is it, guys? Not illegal if it's fair use.
It's on TPB of course.<p><a href="http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6110040/Martin_Luther_King__I_Have_A_Dream_Mp4" rel="nofollow">http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6110040/Martin_Luther_King__I...</a>
These draconian laws like DMCA, SOPA, and copyright extensions that pushed though by the RIAA and MPAA are suppressing our creativity
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4</a> and are destroying our cultural heritage.
<a href="http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/11/48625?currentPage=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/11/48625?cu...</a>
To top it off, their outdated business model leaches most of the money from the artists.
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/" rel="nofollow">http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/</a>
Copyright needs to be reformed. Some changes that I'd like to see are:<p>* Abolish the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.<p>* Intellectual property should be taxed like real property.
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-weaver20feb20,0,1675278.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-weaver20feb20,0,1...</a>
It is an asset with a value, right? If you no longer make enough to pay your taxes on it, it goes to the state to dispose of.<p>* Copyrights are supposed to be an incentive to create. One that lasts unto your grandchildren are a dis-incentive, because not only are you not creating any more once you are dead, neither are your descendants. Copyright should last half a working lifetime (20 years), to encourage people to continue to create.<p>* Someone who makes copies without permission should pay a fine, but it should be at the regular royalty rate for the item x copies made. So upload a song, it's iTunes price x number of downloads, with perhaps a factor of 3 penalty to discourage doing it, not $150,000 per copy.<p>If you care about copyright reform, you can donate money to the EFF or at least sign this petition urging reform.
<a href="http://www.fightforthefuture.org/fixcopyright" rel="nofollow">http://www.fightforthefuture.org/fixcopyright</a>
I am sorry if I am mistaken here since I am not American.
But don't you have a public holiday for him (MLK)? How did the government not secure copyright for his most famous speech? That is almost like the national anthem copyrighted by a corp. Does at least the president keep copyright of his speeches?
Can we get a journalist to cover the history of the copyright of this broadcast and the players who continue to profit from the doctor's fine words? I'd really like to know why his family ever felt entitled to keeping such a monumental event repressed.
Well, that was fast. It's already taken down from the vimeo link in the article. I doubt anyone here hasn't already seen it, but here it is:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs</a>
This is relevant: <a href="http://www.freakonomics.com/2013/01/17/who-owns-the-words-that-come-out-of-your-mouth-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/" rel="nofollow">http://www.freakonomics.com/2013/01/17/who-owns-the-words-th...</a>
the united states judicial system discriminates against programmers, giving 10x the sentences for equivalent crimes in other older offenses like armed robbery. downloading a file can get you more jail time than waving a gun around in a populated area demanding money.<p>I demand to be treated equally. that means when a senator gets caught bribing for millions in personal gain, he gets put away for 35 years, as an example.