I was careful to avoid entirely touching on “What would MLK want”

Uh, what?

This is you in your previous post: “No – he would want … “. Please stop with the double-talk. Why all the dancing around that just leads to semantic arguments making this about you instead of the point of this thread?

Anyway… the source I linked to in my previous post says, “… King himself donated proceeds from licensing the speech to fund the civil rights movement.” That somewhat supports your argument in that King certainly wasn’t adverse to utilizing licensing of the speech.

But, once again, this man who wrote so much and knew his life was in dire danger didn’t find it necessary to write a Will? If money from the speech going to his family after his death was so important to the man, why on Earth didn’t he make that his last will and testament?

And, as far as the family goes… many of them should be ashamed of themselves publicly squabbling over their dead father’s assets. They sure as hell don’t have to keep his “I Have a Dream” speech held hostage to make money. Why not just profit off of movie rights, etc.? Because they are too busy squabbling apparently. I sincerely doubt MLK would want (or expected) that either.

I’d love nothing more than another semantic argument [eye roll]… but let’s just agree to disagree, m’kay?

I did speak about his philosophy, and I have a very difficult time believing that anyone familiar with his philosophy would state that people should not be granted equal protection of the laws, that children should not be provided for by their parents, that property should be stripped from the owner by a mob without compensation, simply because the property is popular, or of historic significance, or the owner has not consented to display of the artifact(s) free of charge.

Be careful not to eisegesise, when constructing an argument.

His children are disgraceful, and we all have a moral obligation to ignore this and any other broken copyright.

Fight for your flawed system if you wish. History belongs to everyone.

He also wanted us to judge them by the content of their character.

Done. Not the best of folks.

Get a number from them, use Kickstarter or something to raise the money (I’d kick in few bucks) and then pay them off and make this whole issue go away once and for all.

How does this “children have a right to make a living from the labor of their parents” thing fit into the whole “equality of opportunity” ideal?