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Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS I have a dream, delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 I have a dreamLincoln MemorialWashington, D.C.August The court ruled the speech was a performance and is, like other performances such as plays and CBS's own television shows, covered by copyright, and is not in the public domain The case was never finally decided as the two sides ultimately settled the matter out of court From: wikipedia.org/

Question 2: Map in book or CD The Complete National Geographic CD-ROM contains  All mags since 1888  9,500 articles  180,000 photographs,  196,000 pages of material  1.4 million units of it have been sold

Question 2: Map in book or CD Nothing has been paid to the freelance contributors to the original magazine Ward et al v National Geographic Lots of court time involved

Question 2: Map in book or CD Jerry Greenberg v. National Geographic Society, et al. No (11th Cir., June 13, 2007) Republication Of Magazine In CD-ROM Format Is A Protected Revision That Does Not Require Additional License The 11th Circuit holds that pursuant to 17 U.S.C. Section 201(c), the republication of 1200 National Geographic magazines in a 30 disc cd-rom set titled ‘the Complete National Geographic’ is a permitted revision of those collective works for which the National Geographic, the owner of the copyright therein, does not need additional license or permission from plaintiff, the owner of the copyright in various photos contained in these magazines. The fact that this cd-rom set also contained a new 25 second video montage of the covers of 10 of the magazines it contained did not alter this conclusion. In reaching this result, the 11th Circuit followed the decisions of the Second Circuit in Faulkner v. Nat’l Geographic Society, 409 F.3d 26 (2d Cir.) cert denied – US --, 126 S.Ct. 833 (2005) and the Supreme Court in New York Times Co. v. Tasini, 533 U.S. 483 (2001). The 11th Circuit accordingly reversed its prior contrary decision, and remanded the case to the District Court for further consideration of plaintiff’s claim that the inclusion of one of his photographs in a magazine cover contained in this new 25 second montage infringed his copyright therein. 

Question 3: Crime data – Crime Map Government Proposes New Regulation Of Sports Statistics And Other "Facts"  /15/fantasy.lawsuit/