Kennedy Foundation Asks Sotto to Remove Kennedy Speech from His Website

Several days after Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III asked the Philippine Daily Inquirer to remove the news about the late Pepsi Paloma involving his name on their website, The Robert Kennedy Foundation sent a letter to the senator asking him to remove the plagiarized speech from his official website.

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Kerry Kennedy earlier wrote Sotto a letter demanding an apology for the latter's use of the words of her father in his turno en contra speech on the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill. The letter went viral.

She said it was an “unethical, unsanctioned theft of Robert Kennedy's intellectual property.”

Sotto eventually said sorry but added that "copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery. If it upsets the Kennedy family, I'm sorry. But that is not the intention that we have."

In a letter, Kerry politely asked Sotto to remove the plagiarized material because no one has the right to use it without her, or the foundation’s approval.

Going back.

The above is Sotto’s speech with the original Kennedy speech below (translated by Sotto).

Meanwhile, Inquirer has not yet responded to Sotto’s request to remove the news about Pepsi Paloma. Sotto has been denying for decades on his alleged involvement in the rape of the then teenager Pepsi Paloma.

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