[nexa] "Occupy the public domain"

Occupy the public domain Jennifer E. Rothman Monday, February 6, 2012 If you celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by watching the "I Have a Dream" speech on YouTube, you broke the law. Or at least that's what the Martin Luther King Jr. estate contends. It claims that if you want to legally watch a video of the Rev. King's copyrighted speech - one of the most important speeches in our country's history - you need to pay its foundation $10. Instead of providing for sharing such important moments, our government has been complicit in endorsing a vision of copyright law in which nothing is free for use by the public. [...] Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/05/EDT01N30MS.DTL#i...