The legal complexities of who owns Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech boiled down to competing common-sense propositions during appellate argument Tuesday. The CBS lawyers say no one owns the speech, leaving the media company free to use part of it in a video documentary. Dexter King, who listened to arguments, told reporters later that one thing was clear: His father had intended to protect the speech.
May 12, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The legal complexities of who owns Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Havea Dream” speech boiled down to competing common-sense propositions duringappellate argument Tuesday.
“When someone makes a speech in public, we don’t have to stand up andsay ‘all rights reserved,’ ” insisted lawyer Joseph M. Beck, who representsthe King family in its copyright suit against CBS Inc.
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