Comments on: “Target has right to sell Rosa Parks biographies, commemorative plaque” https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/01/target-has-right-to-sell-rosa-parks-biographies-commemorative-plaque/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 11 Jan 2016 02:06:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: gitarcarver https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/01/target-has-right-to-sell-rosa-parks-biographies-commemorative-plaque/comment-page-1/#comment-331989 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 02:06:09 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=57051#comment-331989 In December of 2014, this blog covered the non use of Martin Luther King’s actual words from for the movie “Selma.”

( see: http://overlawyered.com/2014/12/selma-speeches-not-king/ )

You quoted Jonathan Brand in saying:

… [Under existing precedent] DuVernay would have had a strong fair use defense had she used King’s actual words rather than just paraphrased them. Perhaps she (or her lawyers) decided that historical accuracy was not worth the risk of litigation with the King estate.

Assuming that the decision in the Parks case is applied nationwide, would this mean that the fear of a suit by the King family and or Steven Spielberg (who owns the rights) would go away because there would be no basis for the lawsuit?

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