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Judge rules in Yoko Ono's favor in film copyright case

June 30, 10:11 AMBeatles ExaminerSteve Marinucci
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   Yoko Ono (AP file photo)

A judge in Boston has dismissed a suit claiming that Yoko Ono is not the owner of the copyright for a film of John Lennon made in 1970, reports the Associated Press.

The 12-page ruling, made by Judge Rya Zobel and filed in U.S. District Court June 25, let stand a decison last year throwing out the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by World Wide Video LLC, a company from Massachusetts that claimed it owned the videotapes.

The company had claimed it bought the footage from the man who filmed it, Ono’s ex-husband Anthony Cox.

But Ono countered that she and Cox had said the tapes would never be used commercially. She bought the rights to them from a broker in 2002, which World Wide Video said did not have the right to sell them.

 

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