Steven Spielberg/DreamWorks Own the Rights To MLK's Life and Speeches

[willywanker]

Nobody owns those speaches they are everyones to share.

 

[northside7]

Selling the rights to your father's life and speeches for a dollar smh.

Some of us still ain't learning.

 

[Louis Devinear]

Nobody owns those speaches they are everyones to share.

Just like white people. Always wanna own or take shit that yall didn't have a hand in creating or starting.

 

[Brother_Five]

so what y'all gonna do about it?

I'm going to write a passionate and frustrated post about it on the non-music section of my preferred hip-hop forum of choice.

 

[playmaker88]

was gonna type something but fuck it..shameful we are always selling ourselves...

 

[leftcoastkev]

Bobby Hemmitt: "Martin Luther King was the greatest government agent, ever!"

 

[Ilike2get baked]

Nah....this travesty doesn't go to the white man....this is his kids fault...Should've never sold it in the first place....

 

[NeighborhoodNomad.]

so what y'all gonna do about it?

Great question.

Step 1. Inform the people.

Step 2. Understand that you are the only being who can posess/take ownership of your words.

Step 3. Don't support the film.

Step 4. Understand that any MLK story that is released has been approved by DreamWorks and not the King family.

What do you suggest?

Most importantly, no one can own your words but you. They can't take that from you.

 

[aka_OG]

Farrakhan brought up a good point about MLK's image being watered down - now this...

y'all better download his speeches from 1965-1968 off youtube before they're gone

 

[kzzl]

How and why doesn't the King family have the rights?

There was a thread on here a while back about the kids wanting to sell but one of them wasn't with it. They kept buyer hush hush, but now we know.

 

[Dr.Chemix]

Speak on it? As in, commence a circle jerk discussion fruitless in nature; a platform for posters to gain GOATs for saying something supposedly intelligent?

 

[jono]

Intellectual property can be bought and sold like every other commodity.

The Estate sold the movie rights (which includes the speeches) to Steven Spielberg. They also have a history of allowing corporations to use MLK's likeness and speeches to sell products.

They are suing each other these days because King's boys want to sell the family Bible and Nobel Prize for $15 million.

The Estate are a gaggle of fuck niggas that don't deserve the support from anyone. They constantly bickering and looking to sell significant black history to the highest bidder, which is usually white-owned corporations.

 

[EyeofAsaru]

MLK was boule society

I know people detest hearing this but king set black people back pushing that integration bullshit...Now we have been integrated and still lost our cultural identities,economic power and soul..how many youth identify with their Nubian roots?

King was a amazing soulful speaker but he was a agent that worked with the same white devils killing us..He was a chess piece in the grand deception game..he was also programmed by the devil's Christianity which is a mind spell within itself

Kendrick Lamar was wrong..melaninated beings were always used by illuminati groups because they(whites) overstand the magical power of melanin and its power for great manifestion and influence,waaay better than most black people ..smh..They will use black people to move mountains and then discard them..

Its fucking sad that the white man recognizes who the god seeds are on this planet before the god seed even overstands it..

Now these devils own the soul energy of mlk for monetary purposes..Once again the devil checkmated black people in the scope of the matrix...for now...

They know their time is up so they are going to do everything in their power to maintain their grip on the planet..it wont tho because nature is going to clean house real soon

 

[NeighborhoodNomad.]

Speak on it? As in, commence a circle jerk discussion fruitless in nature; a platform for posters to gain GOATs for saying something supposedly intelligent?

I meant speak on it. All that other shit you're saying is extra and is coming from emotion.

What do you suggest?

 

[Breezy_Kilroy]

Apparently they didn't deserve it.

Some things just arent and shouldn't be for sale but it was their right to do with it as they please. I hope it was worth it.

 

[Swiffness!]

Intellectual property can be bought and sold like every other commodity.

The Estate sold the movie rights (which includes the speeches) to Steven Spielberg. They also have a history of allowing corporations to use MLK's likeness and speeches to sell products.

They are suing each other these days because King's boys want to sell the family Bible and Nobel Prize for $15 million.

The Estate are a gaggle of fuck niggas that don't deserve the support from anyone. They constantly bickering and looking to sell significant black history to the highest bidder, which is usually white-owned corporations.

lol niggas don't know how film rights work apparently. It's no different than Hendrix's family controlling who gets to make films using Jimi's real songs. That last Jimi biopic w/ Andre 3000 weren't allowed to use his real songs cuz the family said no. Meanwhile:

Jimi Hendrix's estate has reached an agreement with Legendary Pictures for an official biopic of the late rock legend. Director Paul Greengrass (United 93, Captain Phillips) is in talks to helm the project, based on a script from Scott Silver (8 Mile) and featuring actual Hendrix recordings, Deadline reports.

Read more:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...rector-paul-greengrass-20150508#ixzz3cpiq6fZZ

Same thing.

Ya'll laptop farrakhans in here talkin that shit like suddenly Dreamworks get royalties every time someone sez "I Have a Dream". FOH, at least try to learn how capitalism works a little bit before you start bitching about it lol.

Selling the Bible for mammon is some cold shit. Fuck a Nobel Prize tho lol.

 

[MR.CJ]

Smh

 

[phukkyou2]

King was a amazing soulful speaker but he was a agent that worked with the same white devils killing us..He was a chess piece in the grand deception game..he was also programmed by the devil's Christianity which is a mind spell within itself

You realize that Christianity is based off of a "Black" "Man" and Islam was started by a White Guy? Just sayin

But for the most part you're right.

X >>>>>> King

 

[Fosheezy]

How much exactly did they get in exchange for selling the rights to something like that?

 

[LPast]

Crazy thing is I bet they didn't need the money. True sellout.