On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:25:54 -0400, Scout wrote:

You need a license to quote Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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