ly’s approach to intellectual propertyrnrights became accepted practice.rnMr. Branch is right: by delaying publishingrnprojects with excessive red tape,rnor by derailing them altogether with exorbitantrnfees, the King estate can in effectrnstymie scholarship and censor history byrncontrolling who receives permission torncomment on King and his work. Thisrndanger was not lost on David Garrow, arnfrequent critic of the King family. As hernwrote in the Post:rnHow will new students of King’srnlife, especially young people, reactrnto the meaning of a man whosernvear-2000 image may be heavilyrncolorized—or perhaps bleached —rnb”lime-Warner’s corporate imagernspecialists? . . . Consider the possibilit)’rnof a scholar whose analyses ofrnKing—or an)’thing else—anger orrnoffend the King estate.. . . Couldrnpermission to quote from King’srnmaterials be withheld, or the pricernmade high enough to alone blockrnpublicahon?rnAs a case in point, Carrow highlights thernostensible about-face of Taylor Branch,rnwho after meeting with the King familyrnthen “declined to expand” on his previousrnpublic criticisms of the King estate.rn”Branch ma)’ or may not have changedrnhis views,” writes Garrow, “but the leveragernthat IPM’s stance gives the King estaternover writers who specialize in Kingrncould well inhibit them from speakingrnout fully and franklv about their concernsrnregarding the King family, thernKing Center and the King estate.”rnOf course, what is overlooked in all ofrnthis is the irony: the King estate now enforcesrncopyrights and demands exorbitantrnroyalties on work which King oftenrnstole in the first place. In a just world, thernro}’alties would go to the estates of JackrnBoozer, Archibald Carey, Paul Tillich,rnand to the scores of other writers, ministers,rnscholars, and social activists whosernwork fell pre’ to King’s “voice merging.”rnIrony, it seems, is just another ofrnthe many things to which we have to bernsensitise.rnTheodore Pappas is the managing editorrnof Chronicles. This article is excerptedrnfrom his new book, Plagiarism and thernCulture War: The Writings of MarhnrnLuther King, Jr., and Other ProminentrnAmericans (Hallberg PubUshingrnCorporation).rnA work of great seriousness… “–John LukacsrnPLAGIARISMrnAND THErnCULTURE WARrnThe Writings of MartinrnLutlierKing, Jr., andOtlierrnProminent AmericansrnPLAGIARISMrnAlVri XHPrnX .&-i-, V SL^..^ JL… M… -M. .m JrnCULTURE WARrnllie Writings of MartinrnLuther King, Jr., andrnOther ProminentrnAmericansrnTUFODOUi-: PAi’msrnThe revised andrnexpanded edition ofrnTt)e Martin Luttier King,rnJr., Plagiarism Storyrnby THEODORErnPAPPASrnNew Foreword ByrnEUGENE GENOVESErnNow Available from Hallberg Publishing Corp.rnISBN 087319-045-9,212pp., $16.95 (Add $2 S&H)rnTo Order by Credit Card, Callrn1-800-633-7627rnA devastating critique… “Samuei FrancisrnriK;i:Nr(;hM)vrsKrnMAY 1998/45rnrnrn