King film shown tonight as part of copyright fight

San Francisco Chronicle: King film shown tonight as part of copyright fight.

Charging that corporate greed is blocking access to important historical information, activists in nearly 70 cities in the United States and abroad today will host screenings of a major documentary on the civil rights movement that has not been shown publicly for a decade.

Four of the showings featuring parts of the landmark "Eyes on the Prize'' television series are scheduled in the Bay Area, including one in Berkeley, one in Palo Alto and two in San Francisco

The viewings are part of a campaign by Downhill Battle, a nonprofit Massachusetts group formed in 1993 to fight the music recording industry's attempts to stop the sharing of copyrighted material over the Internet. The film showings coincide with Black History Month. ...

Democracy Now has an article and Q&A on the subject here.