Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc.
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Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc. (194 F.3d 1211 (11th Cir. 1999))[1] is a United States court case that involved a longstanding dispute about the public domain copyright status of the text of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech, known by the key phrase "I Have a Dream", originally delivered at the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The court ruled that King's delivery of the speech was a "performance", rather than a "general publication", of its text, and therefore overruled a lower court judgment granting summary judgment in CBS's favor. The two sides ultimately settled the matter out of court instead of appealing to a higher court.
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit |
Full case name | Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc. |
Decided | November 5 1999 |
Citation | 194 F.3d 1211 (11th Cir. 1999) |
Court membership | |
Judges sitting | R. Lanier Anderson III, Paul Hitch Roney, Julian Abele Cook Jr. (E.D. Mich.) |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Anderson |
Concurrence | Cook |
Dissent | Roney |