Just Words? What do you think? Who owns the copyright on these words? Most people say that some of the words Barack Obama recently used belong to Martin Luther King, Jr, Thomas Jefferson, and John F. Kennedy. Others say they belong to Deval Patrick.
But who truly owns any of these ideas or words? Even before King, Jefferson, and Kennedy, there was John Locke, Booker T. Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and many many others that came before them.
After the politicking subsides and the media spin beings to slow, what should we do? Is it better to act as copyright police or rather engage in the conversation and see how we can put these great ideals into action?
If you want to see more, check out the more than 1,300 videos already posted to YouTube over these war of words.
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