As many readers will be aware, the producers of Ben Stein’s controversial film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed have been summoned to court for alleged copyright infringement. Yoko Ono, the widow of Beatles legend John Lennon took the producers to court in late April claiming they infringed copyright by using Lennon’s song Imagine in the movie without written permission. The producers defence was that they used the song under the fair use conditions. Click here for a report.
Well the courts threw it out in mid July landing on the side of the producers.
One must ponder the irony of Ono suing a company for copyright infringement of a song which contains the lyrics “imagine no possessions” and “imagine all the people, sharing all the world.”
Almost as ironic as Lennon posthumously laughing at the approving nods from fans of his sentiment whilst sitting in a stately home the size of a small third world town playing a piano that Elton John could only dream of affording. Oh the irony of post modernism. Only Lennon and Ono could pull it off so well.
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