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Churchill's Heirs Seek To Lose The Future By Charging Biographer To Quote His Words

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We've talked in the past about how the heirs of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Joyce have a long and unfortunate history of being ridiculous about letting anyone quote their dead ancestors. Both families have abused copyright law to demand excessive payments, even for researchers and memorials and the like. Now we can add the heirs of Winston Churchill to the bunch.

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rnturn ·
(to, hopefully, avoid any legal problem with his heirs):

``Never in the history of humans, has so much been owed by so many, to so few.''

I realize that the British upper classes have it hard, having to open up their houses and expansive grounds to tours and all to make a buck/shilling/pound/whatever), but this is certainly not what the copyright laws were meant to protect.

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