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by danielweber
5083 days ago
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> would only Martin Luther King be allowed to express his opinion If you want to recreate his entire speech (or mostly his speech), you would indeed need to get his permission. Or that of his estate. If King wished to give his speech away, it was entirely his right and prerogative to do so. For the instances that I am aware of, he did not. In fact, King published and sold many of his speeches via vinyl record. You are allowed to have your own opinions and talk about them. Pretending that seeding The Avengers is you expressing your opinion doesn't really fool anyone. |
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I'm a little young to remember, but wouldn't most of the civil rights rallies been "open to the public"? Even if King gave away his opinions as a sermon to his church, I'd bet that attendance was open to anyone who cared to go.
Isn't public oratory (a.k.a. "speeches") the most flagrant manner of "giving his speech away"?
Shouldn't the question be reversed: if King wanted to sell his opinions, shouldn't he have avoided public oratory in which he gave away those opinions without getting an NDA or some other kind of license agreement with the attendees?