[My2Cents]

This is news? It seems it's been going on for about 30 years.

[gortklattu]

Hey, King is making more money dead than Jesse is making alive......

[JD86]

Please allow me to be the first to post a non-politically-correct comment. I am sick and tired of finding a Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd in every city in every state. I disagree with his statute being on the Mall and I will never attend any event or facility which charges admission which goes to his family. Same goes for his clone, JJ. All exploit their own people for personal renumeration.

[Joe Boucher]

And that legacy would be? Woman, wine and plagerism?

[Right Wing Professor]

Cingular Wireless also paid the King family an undisclosed sum to use a portion of King's "I Have A Dream" speech in a cellular telephone ad that included quotes from Kermit the Frog and Homer Simpson.3 These ads have done little more than to turn King into a corporate shill, for sale to the highest bidder by relatives who want to pad their high-on-the-hog lifestyle.

What's really funny about this is that a large part of the 'I have a dream' speech was 'borrowed' by King from an earlier speech given by a black minister at the 1952 Republican convention. Little of what King wrote was his own. His Ph.D. thesis was plagiarized, as were several of his later writings. Any lawyerly types know if you can copyright a peice of text you've stolen from someone else?

The Martin Luther King plagiarism page