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Originally Posted by sun surfer
The interesting thing here is, not knowing too much about copyright law, that I'm surprised that speeches get copyright.
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Why? It fulfils all the criteria for copyright. It's a piece of creative writing. The fact that the author of such a work chooses to read it out in public doesn't place it into the public domain.
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Do any of you think if MLK were still alive that he would've copyrighted the speech and sold it for money?
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He didn't have to "copyright" the speech. It was automatically protected by copyright the moment that he set pen to paper.
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Should the current copyright holder have the rights to this valuable property?
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As I said, someone is free to make them an offer and buy the right from them. Are you suggesting that this extremely valuable property should be forcibly taken from them without compensation of any kind?