Today, January 18th, is Martin Luther King day. If you wanted to watch a video to mark the occasion, the first thing that would come to mind, I think, as it did for me, would be the "I Have a Dream" speech.

But there's a problem: It's copyrighted, and the King family has exercised iron control over its use, suing TV networks and documentarians for using it without permission.

As part of Internet Freedom Day, Fight for the Future, a non-profit concerned with keeping the Net open, posted a copy of the video as an act of civil disobedience. I'm a little unclear on how it unfolded after that--taken down and restored, I think--but it's still up on their Web site:

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/mlk/ (a YouTube version)

And you can download it (or view it online) from

in the likely event that the YouTube video is pulled.

Watching it is also, technically, an act of civil disobedience. And what decent human being wouldn't thrill at the thought of committing an act of civil disobedience in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King?