Yoko Ono and EMI Records have dropped a lawsuit against Premise Media over the unauthorized use of John Lennon’s song Imagine.

A documentary entitled ‘Expelled:  No Intelligence Allowed’ which is about the theory of intelligent design, used a 15 second clip of the song,  irking Yoko.   Now the New York State Supreme Court has denied a motion to prevent the film from being shown and Yoko and EMI Records have dropped their claim of copyright infringement.

Anthony Falzone, who is the executive director of Stanford’s Law School Fair Use Project and lead counsel, said about the case…

“The right to use copyrighted material to criticise it is essential to free speech and public debate, and that’s what was at stake here. We think it was clear from the beginning that our clients had every right to use the Imagine clip as they did, and we’re happy we’ve vindicated that right.”

Well, you win some you lose some, but something tells me this isn’t going over too well with Yoko.

Source, Photo:  PR Photos

Reported at: 6:52 am | By: Pink Meanie |
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