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Article: Martin Luther King, Jr. estate sues CBS News.(for selling 'I Have A Dream' speech)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- December 9, 1996
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The estate of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is suing CBS News. It is charging the network with copyright infringement for using part of King's famed "I Have A Dream" speech in a television documentary.
The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Atlanta, seeks to halt CBS from selling videocassette footage of "20th Century with Mike Wallace", a documentary on the Civil Rights Movement.
King's estate claims that CBS is attempting to profit from copyrighted work.
"You don't own that speech, and you can't sell it," said Phillip Jones, president of Intellectual Properties Management, the Atlanta firm that manages the King estate.