Yoko Ono scores in feud over rare Lennon footage
Bean Town (Reuters) - Whoremaster Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, made big strides on Wed in a legal feud over footage of the former Beatle smoking tidy sum, penning songs and discussing putting the hallucinogenic drug Lysergic acid diethylamide in President Richard Nixon's tea.
Yoko Ono is in a legal contravention to catch Domain Wide Video, a Newly England consortium of Beatles collectors, from releasing the written communication footage as a two-hour film titled "3 days in the lifetime" nearly John Lennon during a pivotal and turbulent time for the most celebrated band of the sixties.
U.S. Dominion Courtroom Evaluate Rya rug Zobel in Beantown ruled in favour of Yoko Ono in deuce counts in a case involving videotapes that Rolling Lucy Stone cartridge has described as "awesome John Lennon footage you mightiness never see."
The case is centered around world Health Organization owns the baseball club hours of altogether footage filmed weeks before the "Fab Four" broke up in 1970.
Existence Wide Picture claims ownership of the videos and says it paid more than $1 1000000 for them after legal costs and other expenses. Ono's lawyers say she purchased the tapes from World Wide through a FL man.
Later on that, the sheath gets murky. Humanity Wide asserts that the tapes were stolen and were sold to Ono illegally, and sued Ono for right of first publication infringement in a call to publicly show them.
Zobel told the royal court that Ono did non do anything constituting infraction -- from performing copyrighted work publically, or distributing or publicly displaying the videos.
"What the complainant suggests just doesn't fit," Zobel said. "It seems to me the defendant's apparent motion is well taken because there was no infraction."
