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Yesterday the trial court ruled against and ’s sons, holders of the copyright to Lennon’s song “,” in their lawsuit against challenging use of 15 seconds of the song in ’s film “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.” Ono et al did not want use of the song to appear to endorse the message of Stein’s pro-intelligent design film. The judge ruled that use of the song was . I’ve not seen the film but the judge’s ruling appears to be correct, based on what I’ve read. The song is played against a montage of images criticizing its anti-war and anti-religion lyrics, a straightforward example of transformative, parodic use. Ono plans to appeal but success on appeal is unlikely.

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This was written by David Randall. Posted on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at 7:30 am. Filed under Copyright Law. Tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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