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A US district court in Alexandria, VA, ruled in Religious Technology Center v. Lerma that a restraining order against the Washington Post and cult critic Arnaldo Lerma should be lifted. The order had been requested by the Church of Scientology when it found that Lerma was releasing Church documents to the newspaper. The ensuing legal battle focused on attempts by Lerma to retrieve computers and computer files that had been confiscated pursuant to a court order. The court found that return of all computer files was appropriate and that the restraining order should be lifted.
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The federal District Court in Atlanta dismissed a claim by the Martin Luther King, Jr., estate that a CBS broadcast of King's 'I Have a Dream' speech violated King's copyright of the speech. King had registered 25 copyright claims after he delivered the speech in May 1963 but before he was assassinated in 1968. The Court stated that delivering the speech amounted to general publication that placed the speech in the public domain. The speech could therefore not be protected by copyright law.
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The US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled in Estate of King v. CBS, Inc. that the estate of Martin Luther King Jr.'s copyright claim to his "I Have a Dream" speech is not waived by it having been publicly delivered.
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