On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:54:09AM -0400, James Miller wrote: > Martin Luther King Jr.' s estate brought a successful claim of > infringment for his "I have a dream speech" on the basis that it was > "unpublished" within the meaning of hte statute.
I think you've got it wrong. According to Project Gutenberg, which is publishing the speech and is usually pretty anal about these things: > This speech has been through years of court cases to determine, > in various jurisdictions, whether it was ever copyrighted, and > the United States court system recently laid down their rulings > that this speech had never been copyrighted, since at that time > it was required to post a copyright notice on printed copies to > be distributed, and this speech was distributed without such an > extra (C) Copyright notice as was then required in the US. The > US revised this law in 1989, an no longer requires such notice. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
