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The article criticizes the King family for commercializing the legacy and works of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. These blatant commercialization has been reflected in various intellectual-property and copyright lawsuits against users of the civil right leader's speeches, public documentation and other mementos. But beyond such private claims, the family, it seems, want to cash in on his legacy to the public. And increasingly, it makes the family looks like opportunists trying to profit from one of the most revered civil rights leaders on the U.S.