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14 Feb, 2008 12:01 pm
... primarily merely a surname." After the application was denied on the basis of it being merely a surname, Murphy's attorneys petitioned that the name LENNON had acquired secondary meaning. One of the ways in which a mark can acquire secondary meaning is through use in ... a music store and sees a album
bearing the mark LENNON, is that consumer more likely to associate that album with Lennon Murphy than
John Lennon, Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon or anyone else in the world named Lennon? If she wins this ...
13 Feb, 2008 7:00 am
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has sued singer Lennon Murphy over the name LENNON. John Lennon's son Julian sides with Lennon Murphy. This case poses the often challenging questions: Does a person have a right to use their own name as a trademark if it is confusingly similar
to another's name or mark ... his own last name as a brand for automobiles? Could my Scottish friend Charters McDonald Brown open McDonald's restaurants selling McHaggis dinners? More
on LENNON available here.
2 Jun, 2008 12:42 pm
... a movie promoting intelligent design to continue using a 15-second recording of John Lennon's "Imagine." A New York judge said the makers
of Expelled had a right ... had licensed the song to the movie. "Internet 'bloggers' immediately began accusing Mrs. Lennon of 'selling out' by
licensing the song to defendants," according to the complaint filed in April in U. ... Sidney H. Stein wrote (.pdf) Monday. Ono, who sued along with Lennon's sons Julian, Sean and EMI Blackwood Music, sought to have the song ...
4 Apr, 2007 9:15 pm
... about one member's beneficial comments, because the speaker was wearing a suit. John Lennon railed against the suit-wearers running the
record company issuing Beatles music. ... even though I wear them to court. In this context, I met longtime civil rights activist Julian Bond
in a sea of suits at last week's annual local ACLU fundraiser. ... among several lawsuits filed over the mass arrests. This was the second time I met Julian Bond, the first time having been around eighteen years ago when passing ...
13 Mar 1:32 pm
... 's position in connection with the Obama Hope poster. I cannot help but recall last year's lawsuit brought by Yoko Ono, Sean Ono, and Julian Lennon seeking to require the makers of the documentary "Expelled" from using a 15 second excerpt of John
Lennon's song "Imagine" in their documentary. As I wrote at the time, I believed the lawsuit was misbegotten and that the film's use of the
excerpt constituted fair use despite my ...
7 Dec, 2006 4:09 am
... New York, where the TL kid attended college and is now finishing law school, canvassing the sidewalk art shows for Lennon memorabilia, he's
always been in the background of our lives. December 8 is a contemplative day for us, ... Each person has something to be totally miserable about because of the way they were put into
this play. To Yoko, Sean, Julian and Cynthia: There are millions of people in this world whose lives were enriched by John Lennon, his persona and his music. He told his truth and ...
25 Feb 8:25 pm
... Strawberry Fields memorial with the mosaic of the word "Imagine" that is in Central Park opposite the Dakota. Yoko Ono Lennon funded and
maintains the memorial. Almost every day, somebody asks me for directions to the site. Yoko Ono Lennon, along with Lennon's sons Sean and Julian, vigorously protect their copyrights in John Lennon's ... the song Imagine. Judge Sidney Stein (S.D.N.Y.) ruled in Lennon v. Premise Media that the producer was
likely to prevail on a fair use defense and he ...
10 May, 2008 3:10 am
... and Society today announced that it is signing on to defend Premise Media's right to use a clip of John Lennon's song "Imagine" in its
documentary, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," [ [www.expelledthemovie.com] ] for the purposes of commentary and ... the world might be a better place without religion.
Lennon's widow Yoko Ono Lennon and sons Sean and Julian,
along with EMI Blackwood Music, filed suit on April 22, 2008 claiming that Premise Media's unauthorized use of "Imagine" violates copyright ...
4 Sep, 2007 6:14 am
... conspiracy and bank fraud are continuing offenses. See, e.g., United States v. Lennon, 372 F.3d 535, 541 n. 8 (3d Cir.2004)(conspiracy);
United ... . See, e.g., Tykarsky, 446 F.3d at 479; United States v. Julian, 427 F.3d 471, 481 (7th Cir.2005). Under such review, an ... that
the error in not requiring a special jury finding was 'plain' in that it was an obvious mistake in retrospect."); Julian, 427 F.3d at 482
("This was a plain error in the sense of being an obvious mistake in retrospect."). Thus, ...
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