Rights restrictions radio 4 at 8.25am this morning

decies

No sport on why the rights restrictions message on net ???

spank_inferno

Thats odd.. I've no idea why.

Seems to have gone back to normal now.

sudzs

Was it sport they restricted this morning?? On monday night they blocked a programme about Martin Luther King. I've no idea why.

Timfy

The Martin Luther King "I have a dream" speech is still under copyright and as such would need to be licensed (and paid for!) wherever it is broadcast...

From the net;

"Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech is considered one of the most recognizable collection of words in American history. It’s the rhetorical equivalent of a national treasure or a national park. The National Park Service inscribed it on the Lincoln Memorial and the Library of Congress put it into its National Recording Registry. So we might hold it to be self evident that it can be spread freely.

Not exactly. Any unauthorized usage of the speech and a number of other speeches by King – including in PBS documentaries – is a violation of American law. You’d be hard pressed to find a good complete video version on the web, and it’s not even to be found in the new digital archive of the King Center’s website. If you want to watch the whole thing, legally, you’ll need to get the $20 DVD.

That’s because the King estate, and, as of 2009, the British music publishing conglomerate EMI Publishing, owns the copyright of the speech and its recorded performance. While the copyright restriction isn’t news, EMI’s unusual role in policing the use of King’s words – the first instance of the company taking on a non-music based intellectual property catalog – hasn’t been widely reported. In November 2011, EMI Group was auctioned off, and the publishing business was sold to a consortium run by Sony Corp for $2.2 billion."

sudzs wrote: »

Was it sport they restricted this morning?? On monday night they blocked a programme about Martin Luther King. I've no idea why.