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Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public
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http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSN2242733520080422



BOSTON (Reuters) - Footage of John Lennon smoking pot, writing songs and discussing putting the hallucinogenic drug LSD in President Richard Nixon's tea is the focus of a court case starting in Boston next week over whether the video should be made public.

The case pits Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, against Lawrence, Massachusetts-based World Wide Video, which claims ownership of nine hours of raw footage of the former Beatle and Ono that was filmed just weeks before the "Fab Four" broke up in 1970.

World Wide, a New England consortium of Beatles collectors, wants to release the black-and-white footage as a two-hour film titled "3 days in the life" about Lennon during a pivotal and turbulent time for the most celebrated band of the 1960s.

Rolling Stone magazine dubs it "awesome John Lennon footage you might never see."

The company, which paid more than $1 million for the footage after legal costs and other expenses, nearly premiered it last year at the private Berwick Academy in Maine but abruptly scrapped the screening after the school received a stop order from Ono's lawyers, who assert copyright ownership of the videotapes.

World Wide has filed a suit in U.S. District Court in Boston against Ono for copyright infringement. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 30.

According to court documents, World Wide said it bought 24 original videotapes and their copyrights in 2000 from Anthony Cox, Ono's husband before her marriage to Lennon in 1969.

Cox shot the footage at Lennon's estate in England for a documentary he planned titled "Portrait."



The footage, recorded from February 8 to 11, 1970, shows Lennon composing two hits, "Remember" and "Mind Games," along with a candid discussion of his drug use and scenes that World Wide describes as "intimate and no-holds-barred."

World Wide asserts that shortly after purchasing the videotapes, along with 10 copies, they were stolen in 2000. The company filed a separate civil suit a year later against a New Hampshire man who agreed to return the copies and locate the originals, court documents show.

The original videotapes are now held by Ono, whose lawyers claim in a countersuit that she purchased them legally from World Wide through a Florida man, who has been named as a defendant in the Massachusetts company's suit.

"The decision that should be made in the case is who in fact does have the copyright," Joseph Doyle, World Wide's lawyer, said in a telephone interview. "We're saying that we legitimately own the copyright to this film."

Jonathan Albano, Ono's lawyer in Boston, declined to comment on the case.

(Editing by Peter Cooney)


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"They call it a trip because it takes you places"
~TC


All i know is something like a bird within her sang/ All i know she sang a little while and then flew on/Tell me all that you know, i'll show you snow and rain.

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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: deadHead321]
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I hate Yoko so much

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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: TheCow]
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TheCow said:
I hate Yoko so much


Yeah, what a bitch.
The only good thing that ever came from her being alive
is the Ballad of John And Yoko.


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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: deadHead321]
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Wow, I would love to see him writing those songs.

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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: PinballWizard]
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Why does she care? Wasn't he all about sharing his message of peace? Corrupt money hungry bitch.


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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: DrCamacho89]
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Foko Yunow

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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: Cancer]
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I'm kind of surprised by the reaction here. When I read the article I actually sympathized with Yoko because I felt she was trying to protect this personal and sentimental footage of her and john..

believe me I dislike Yoko as much as the next guy, but I was under the impression this lawsuit is an act of trying to protect this personal footage of Lennon using drugs/talking about drugs..


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"They call it a trip because it takes you places"
~TC


All i know is something like a bird within her sang/ All i know she sang a little while and then flew on/Tell me all that you know, i'll show you snow and rain.

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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: bmiles]
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bmiles said:
TheCow said:
I hate Yoko so much


Yeah, what a bitch.
The only good thing that ever came from her being alive
is the Ballad of John And Yoko.


Are you joking? Do you know how many songs yoko has inspired?

I want you? sheesh


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I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made

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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: deadHead321]
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it does sound like footage that would portray john lennon negatively to the general public, especially talking about slipping a president some lsd.

i'd probably like to see it, but i can certainly understand where she's coming from.


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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: nightkrawler]
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nightkrawler said:
it does sound like footage that would portray john lennon negatively to the general public


Good. I like The Beatles but the popular image of John Lennon as this peace-loving, Gandhi-like freedom fighter is idealistic to say the least.

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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: deadHead321]
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I'd kill to see the bar fight where Lennon hit some dude who called him gay square in the face with a shovel.


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I'm floating in the sea of stars,
I'm drifting away from the shore
I will be lost in the dream when the dark days come
But I will make the time run backwards and
I'll make the stars shine again

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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: leoside]
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leoside said:
bmiles said:
TheCow said:
I hate Yoko so much


Yeah, what a bitch.
The only good thing that ever came from her being alive
is the Ballad of John And Yoko.


Are you joking? Do you know how many songs yoko has inspired?

I want you? sheesh


so? If that bitch wasnt around hed just have written songs about a different bitch, except this bitch wouldnt try to steal the spotlight. Or hed just have written different songs, who cares...

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Re: Yoko in court to prevent rare Lennon footage go public [Re: TheCow]
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TheCow said:
so? If that bitch wasnt around hed just have written songs about a different bitch, except this bitch wouldnt try to steal the spotlight. Or hed just have written different songs, who cares...



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