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Published Date: 25 April 2008
By Samantha Gross
YOKO Ono is suing the producers of a film that challenges the concept of Darwinian evolution, saying they used John Lennon's song Imagine without her permission and led fans to accuse her of "selling out".
In a lawsuit filed in the federal court in Manhattan, Ono accuses the producers of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed of suggesting that those who guard Lennon's legacy somehow authorised or sponsored the film.

The producers of the film, which suggests that life could have emerged through intelligent design, said they used only "a very small portion of the song".

Premise Media said in a statement: "Based on the fair-use doctrine, news commentators and film documentarians regularly use material in the same way we do.

"Unbiased viewers of the film will see that the Imagine clip was used as part of a social commentary in the exercise of free speech and freedom of inquiry."

"Expelled…" opened in US cinemas last week.





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  • Last Updated: 24 April 2008 11:02 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: The Beatles
 
1

Yane,

25/04/2008 03:28:56
Imagine there's no...intelligent design...it's easy if you try...
Apologies, I just had tae use a wee dod...
2

Guthrie,

Edinburgh 25/04/2008 11:31:19
From what I have read, "expelled" does nothing to challenge "Darwinian evolution". Rather it attempts to smear it by argumentum ad nazium, by claiming that Darwin and his work led straight to the Holocaust.


As for imagining there is no intelligent design, you don't need to. There is none. You need the imagination to think there is...
3

Fortunado,

25/04/2008 13:19:33
If a designer existed, I am sure he/she/it would have done better than to design these empty-heads to spread his/her/its message.
4

airmick,

listening to the Beattles in Delaware 25/04/2008 15:59:48
Perhaps Yoko should stick to what she does best, singing????
5

Pilrig.,

Livingston 25/04/2008 16:41:54
4 - she sings like a tone-deif banshee.
6

mike - across the pond,

arimick 25/04/2008 17:23:59
yoko.... singing????

oh god I just threw up.....
7

American,

26/04/2008 02:26:43
What do you expect from someone who sues her stepson. B&tch!

 

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