Taylor Branch , author of two highly acclaimed books about King with a third in progress, says he has been negotiating with the estate on behalf of scholars who want access to King's material and cannot afford high fees to use it. A dime for a dollar Numerous attempts to reach Dexter King , King's youngest son and the head of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change Inc., for comment were unsuccessful. It has to do with the principle that if you make a dollar, I should make a dime. Despite several attempts, CNN Interactive was unable to reach Jones, so it is difficult to determine how many requests are approved and what they cost. She also said that licensing costs could run into the thousands of dollars for massive advertising campaigns.
Money talk raises eyebrows It is the mention of large sums of money that makes people uneasy.
He had very modest needs, and in that sense he devoted himself to the movement. Time Warner is CNN Interactive's parent company. President Ronald Reagan at the 1983 signing ceremony for King holiday legislation The estate has not indicated what it would do with the money. I don't want to see it turned completely into a commercial enterprise. Scholars losing interest in King Emory's Garrow questions whether the estate will receive anything close to the amounts Jones mentioned.