tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post113750975930936282..comments2024-03-15T11:42:21.265-04:00Comments on The Patry Copyright Blog: Martin Luther King, Jr.William Patryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12987498082479617363noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-46290267264711528772008-01-07T11:57:00.000-05:002008-01-07T11:57:00.000-05:00Thank you William, for bring this to our attention...Thank you William, for bring this to our attention, I am not that concern about the copyright issues of Dr. King Speech. I think it is a good ideal that someone posted it on YouTude, so everyone can hear it. The speech is showing up in my college textbook and in classroom across America. If Dr. King were alive today I think he would have posted the speech himself, because the message is what is important and not the potential revenue stream it might provide. One of the problems I still see with us a people today is, we are still waiting for someone to tell us its ok to celebrate the event and how to do it. Take for example my web site at www.mycrystalportrait.com, where I sell ‘personalized laser crystals’ I posted a laser crystal portrait of Martin Luther King and no one buy its, even when I post it on ebay no one even looks at it. Now, when I post a laser crystal of Elvis Presley I can’t make them fast enough. White people will buy them even if they already have one. Why, because they appreciate the important of keeping Elvis ‘Dream’ alive.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16330787843817177898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-8926191689489957882007-12-07T17:55:00.000-05:002007-12-07T17:55:00.000-05:00If it was up to me, I would go for making all of D...If it was up to me, I would go for making all of Dr. King's speeches "public domain," as the man wasn't that worried about making money from them and happens to be dead, anyway. PD might make the speeches a lot more accessible for public use and learning from them, I figure.<BR/><BR/>Okay, now that's said, has anyone else noticed that the King Center website has dozens of broken links and email addresses that when you write them, the mail gets returned as "undeliverable?" I managed to write the donations email, but two of the others were returned. It's not due to overstuffed mailboxes.<BR/><BR/>Also, the progress report for the King Center as listed on the website, latest version, is 2001-2002. It is now the end of 2007. Somebody needs to look at fixing their website, and updating their business records, apparently.<BR/><BR/>I have been trying to contact them about this, so far to little avail, by writing their general info email and their webmaster, with both letters returned. What do you think you could do about it, if anything? Your best guess...I just really wish someone would do something, before Google drops their website down to the bottoms of the search engine pages.<BR/><BR/>KarenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-54916498047329678232007-09-03T13:55:00.000-04:002007-09-03T13:55:00.000-04:00Excellent observations. This is a very frustrating...Excellent observations. This is a very frustrating case, one in which the courts seem to have 'sold' part of our history. As a result, many Americans have never heard the Dream speech, arguably one of the finest political speeches in American history. <BR/><BR/>Ironically, it is now being heard more widely because it is posted in many different clips on YouTube, which would appear to be in violation of copyright law by hosting them.<BR/><BR/>I am torn about this because I want every American to hear this speech, as I am sure Dr. King did, but if I want to include the speech in a television documentary it is going to cost me thousands of dollars to license (if I can even get the copyright holder to quote me a price). <BR/><BR/>That means documentaries, and our nation's history, become the sole province of the rich. While YouTube rakes in ad revenue by illegally hosting copyright material. A sad state of affairs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1164252190181298552006-11-22T22:23:00.000-05:002006-11-22T22:23:00.000-05:00Martin Luther King Jr.<A HREF="http://martinlutherking.org/" REL="nofollow"><STRONG><EM>Martin Luther King Jr.</EM></STRONG></A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1137527355373537442006-01-17T14:49:00.000-05:002006-01-17T14:49:00.000-05:00The 11th circuit opinion is here:http://caselaw.lp...The 11th circuit opinion is here:<BR/><BR/>http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=11th&navby=case&no=989079OPNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com