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14 May, 2008 1:49 pm
... nationwide, and its producers have drawn praise from some circles and scorching criticism from others. Right or wrong, good or bad, it's a film that explores important issues of
free speech, faith and science. Yoko Ono Lennon has sued
the film's producers in federal court because the film uses a fifteen second clip of the John Lennon song "Imagine." EMI, the record label that
asserts ownership in the recording of song, has also sued the producers in state court. Both ...
2 Jun, 2008 2:43 pm
We're happy to report that the Court rejected Yoko Ono Lennon's request to enjoin the further showing and distribution of Expelled. In a twenty-three page memorandum opinion and order issued today, the Court held
that the producers and distributors of Expelled are likely to prevail on their fair use defense and denied Plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction in its entirety. Read the full
opinion here. read more
16 Jun, 2008 11:03 pm
Justia has made the Yoko Ono Lennon v Premise Media court
documents available. Congratulations to the Stanford Fair Use Project for its Fair Use defense.
24 Apr, 2008 8:34 am
Yoko Ono and John Lennon's sons are suing the producers of
the new film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed for using some of John Lennon's song "Imagine" without permission. The claim is that the
producers either knew they couldn't get permission...
2 Jun, 2008 11:05 pm
Yesterday in Yoko Ono Lennon v. Premise Media Corp., (SDNY,
June 2, 2008), a New York federal district court refused to grant a preliminary injunction to Yoko Ono in her copyright infringement suit over use of a 15-second excerpt from a John Lennon song in the film
"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". Yesterday's International Herald Tribune and Wall Street Journal Law Blog both report on the decision relating to music and ...
2 Jul, 2007 7:54 am
Yoko Ono Lennon (小野 洋子 Ono Yōko(ONO Yōk...
14 Feb, 2008 12:01 pm
... up in the mainstream music press. NME, "Yoko Ono sues singer for being called Lennon" Rolling Stone: "Yoko Ono is suing Lennon Murphy, lead singer of the band ... 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 ... If she wins this action, Ono will have simply broken up Murphy and her trademark registration. If Ono actually seeks to prevent Murphy from
performing ...
13 Feb, 2008 12:31 am
... is similar to a lawsuit - was filed at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) by John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, against Lennon Murphy, the registrant of the "Lennon" trademark. Murphy, a musician, filed an "intent to use" trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the
trademark "LENNON" on April 11, 2001. The trademark application was published on October 29, 2002 and was registered on January 21, 2003.
Ono alleges ...
4 Jun, 2008 2:13 am
... Judge Sidley Stein in the Southern District of New York, holding that a 15 second snippet of the Lennon song "Imagine," within the feature
length movie "Expelled", is "fair use" under U.S. copyright law. In other words, the film makers did not infringe Yoko Ono's copyright rights. "Expelled" is a documentary that deals with "intelligent design" (vs. ... in favor of fair use would have been a surprise. For more on
fair use click here. Lennon v Premise Media - Upload a doc Read this doc on Scribd: ...
1 Jun, 2008 2:01 pm
... naive." (Past LB coverage of the case here and here.) In batting down Ono's PI motion, Judge Stein (no relation, as far as we know) ...
fair use." While conceding that "Expelled" is a commercial film, and that the copyrighted work, Lennon's "Imagine," is the kind of work that
lies at the "core" of copyright protection, Judge Stein ... Fields. However, in todays opinion from federal court, Judge Stein wrote that Yoko Ono proffered no evidence to date that permitting defendants to use a fifteen-second ...
19 Oct, 2008 7:25 am
... filed to have the movie pulled from theaters because it uses and critiques 15 seconds of the John Lennon song Imagine. The filmmakers
argued that the use of the song was protected by the fair use doctrine. "This legal action ... the Southern District of New York in Manhattan denied the preliminary injunction claim
from John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono which alleged that the
use of the song clip violated federal copyright and trademark law. Then on August 13, 2008, the New York State Court in Manhattan ...
1 Jul 11:31 am
Yoko Ono has won her legal fight to claim ownership of 10 hours of rare, black-and-white footage of
John Lennon videotaped at the couple's London estate in 1970. In federal court in Boston, U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel has ruled that
Ono was the rightful copyright owner of the footage. I could not find a copy of Judge Zobel's ruling on the court's Web site, but based on
reports from the Associated Press and The Boston Globe, the yearlong copyright fight ...
22 Oct, 2006 6:04 pm
Yoko Ono, the late John Lennon's widow, is suing EMI
Records for $10 million, claiming that the U.K. label systematically underpaid royalties on Lennon's solo works. A spokesman for EMI says that
recording contracts are so complicated that differences of...
15 Feb, 2008 6:41 am
On Tuesday, Techdirt conveyed news that Yoko Ono had filed "what is essentially a lawsuit" with the
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office attempting to force musician Lennon Murphy to give up her trademark...
13 Aug, 2008 7:02 am
... do with love of John Lennon and anger for the crime. This anger will never go away. Yoko
Ono, Lennon's widow, in previous years has submitted a letter requesting that Chapman be denied
parole. Calls Tuesday to Ono's ... , and has decided that Chapman isn't going anywhere. Whether this is viewed as tyranny of the majority, the
majority being those who loved Lennon versus the few who care at all about Chapman, or a political usurpation of the power of the judiciary by
the Parole Board, an arm of the ...
2 May, 2008 11:21 am
Yoko Ono Lennon is suing World Wide Video over 10 hours of
footage shot by Mrs. Lennon's ex-husband Anthony Cox of John Lennon, Mrs. Lennon and their children, claiming that she owns the rights to the video, which she purchased...
18 Feb, 2008 6:47 am
... the Beatles broke up it was ugly. And for many fans the blame fell squarely on the shoulders of Yoko Ono. Fast forward through disco, punk, grunge, rap. Along comes a singer named Lennon Murphy. She achieves a certain
amount of success. As the story is now reported, this singer naively went to Yoko and asked permission to use her own name to identify herself.
No reply from Yoko. Then, undoubtedly at the suggestion of her handlers, ...
19 May, 2008 2:40 pm
... increasingly dominated by secular views, the filmmakers use a 15 second clip of John Lennon's song "Imagine" ("Nothing to kill or die
for/And no religion too"). ... , fair use applies. (Find past LB coverage of the case here.) Yoko Ono
and the Lennon estate disapprove and are suing Premise in federal court. (Here' ... yesterday, soon.) Simultaneously, EMI, which says it owns
the song recording - i.e. Lennon's recorded performance, as distinct from the musical composition - is suing Premise in NY state ...
2 Jun, 2008 12:42 pm
... use under copyright law to use a small portion of the work without Yoko Ono's permission.
Ono, the wife of the late Beatle, brought the case in April, saying the movie's ... 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.
... .S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein wrote (.pdf) Monday. Ono, who sued along with Lennon's sons
Julian, Sean and EMI Blackwood Music, ...
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 ... Ford use 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.
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