...that's not what the article is about.

Ten for two ...

Imagine there's no Ono
It's easy if you try
No courts for her use
Listening to her sing makes you wanna cry
Imagine Yoko Ono
Living for Hersellllllf

JC

Koo-koo. Koo-koo. Koo-koo. Koo-koo ;)

It sounds like the documentary filmmakers didn't actually get permission from anyone to use the song. She might actually have a case here.

The documentary film deals with academic and scientific discrimination from Darwinists against intelligent designers.
Stating that as the track was played for commentary reasons only it should be allowed under the fair use policy.

In a statement they said "We are disappointed therefore that Yoko Ono and others have decided to challenge our free speech right to comment on the song 'Imagine' in our documentary film."

Im still not certain about the existence of a benevolent god but, in a world where John Lennon takes five bullets to the back while Yoko lives to sell pictures of his face on containers of floor wax, the existence of Satan cannot be doubted.

Yoko is a skank.

Ryan2065: It sounds like the documentary filmmakers didn't actually get permission from anyone to use the song. She might actually have a case here.

The documentary film deals with academic and scientific discrimination from Darwinists against intelligent designers.
Stating that as the track was played for commentary reasons only it should be allowed under the fair use policy.

In a statement they said "We are disappointed therefore that Yoko Ono and others have decided to challenge our free speech right to comment on the song 'Imagine' in our documentary film."

This documentary has been caught in several complete, bald-faced lies already. It's rather amusing that a documentary by "Christians" seems to be so sleazy.

netweavr: ...that's not what the article is about.

That's never stopped Fark before. Though I agree that this headline needs to DIAF.

Ironic that they used the song "Imagine" in a movie about intelligent design.

netweavr: ...that's not what the article is about.

NO WAY! youre telling us a fark headline SKEWERED WITH THE ACTUAL CONTENT OF THE ARTICLE ??????????? un-farking-possible!
tell us its not true!!!

PsyLord: netweavr: ...that's not what the article is about.

That's never stopped Fark before. Though I agree that this headline needs to DIAF.

Ironic that they used the song "Imagine" in a movie about intelligent design.


They seemed to have used it for commentary purposes ie, most likely saying the lyrics are total shiate.

It kinda depends on how long the usage is. If it's only a few seconds, I believe they will be able to claim fair use.

So we can't have a clip of Lennon smoking pot, yet we keep the albums he made while high. I'm looking at you, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

why oh why was she not there in johns stead on that fateful day...

Q What did the rest of the Beatles say when they met Yoko?
A Ono!

Considering how incredibly dishonest the makers of this "documentary" have been about pretty much everything else, I actually have to side with Yoko on this one.


And that is one more reason to hate the documentary.

awaken101:

Yoko is a homewrecking, soulless, money-grubbing, profanely unattractive, talentless skank.

FTFY

Why couldn't Lennon's killer take her out, too? We'd have called it a draw!

Knee-jerk Yoko bashing. What a shock.

She is absolutely without question right on this and I support her decision.

Brettster808: Knee-jerk Yoko bashing. What a shock.

She is absolutely without question right on this and I support her decision.

THIS!

JoeCowboy: Imagine there's no Ono
It's easy if you try
No courts for her use
Listening to her sing makes you wanna cry
Imagine Yoko Ono
Living for Hersellllllf

JC

If there's no Ono, there's still a Beatles.

/she broke up the band

FTFA:

... writing songs and discussing putting the hallucinogenic's in Richard Nixon's [yesterdays article] now she is fighting ...

Yoko together with Lennon's sons have are prosecuting ...



Wow. Who else was smoking pot?

Yoko is a homewrecking, soulless, money-grubbing, profanely unattractive, talentless skank.

I think this is the term you were looking for.

So can someone explain why she's suing over a video of him smokin bud? I know the article isn't really about it, but they do mention it, so it must be happening. Does Yoko think that people don't already know he smoked the ganj?

/she broke up the band

Don't blame it on Yokey!

NimbleWalrus:

Imagine there's no Ono
It's easy if you try
No courts for her use
Listening to her sing makes you wanna cry
Imagine Yoko Ono
Living for Hersellllllf

If there's no Ono, there's still a Beatles.

/she broke up the band

STEP AWAY FROM THE CRACKPIPE, EINSTEIN!

JC

NimbleWalrus: If there's no Ono, there's still a Beatles.

/she broke up the band

She was the biggest katalysator, but they would've broken up eventually anyway.

/would you stay in a band with a guy who makes you rehearse Hello Goodbye and Maxwell's Silver Hammer over and over again?

"Be My Yoko Ono"

If there's someone you can live without,
then do so.
And if there's someone you can just shove out;
do so.

[Chorus]
You can be my Yoko Ono
You can follow me wherever I go
Be my, be my,
Be my Yoko Ono.

Isn't it beautiful to see two people so much in love?
Barenaked as two virgins hand in hand and hand and hand in glove.
Now that I'm far away it doesn't seem to me to be such a pain.
To have you hanging off my ankle like some kind of ball and chain.

[Chorus]

Oh no, here we go, our life is just one big pun.
Oh no, here we go as Yoko sings
Aieee!

I know that when I say this,
I may be stepping on pins and needles;
But I don't like all these people
slagging her for breaking up the Beatles.
(Don't blame it on Yokey)
if I was John and you were Yoko,
I would gladly give up musical genius,
just to have you as my very own, personal Venus.
(Hit it)

I dont seem to have much of a problem with her now that heather mills is around to tourment us all

TheJoe03: So can someone explain why she's suing over a video of him smokin bud? I know the article isn't really about it, but they do mention it, so it must be happening. Does Yoko think that people don't already know he smoked the ganj?

The article that should be linked is here (^). My read is that the case isn't so much about the footage of John smoking weed as it is about owning the rights to John's image and to the footage. These guys are taking that footage of Lennon that John and Yoko shot and making their own movie out of it. Yoko's claiming that she has the rights to it and that these guys shouldn't be able to capitalize on it. I can't say I disagree with her on those grounds, although I suspect the idea that people seeing John behaving in a less than socially desirable manner (put as much of that in quotes as you like) would curtail revenues, particularly from middle America, probably comes into play, too.

Personally, I'm pretty annoyed that the use of recreational drugs gets so heavily glossed over in so many recent documentaries on '60s icons - The Beatles Anthology and Scorsese's Dylan documentary, No Direction Home come immediately to mind. Ultimately, it's their footage and they can do what they want with it, but it still paints an incomplete picture.

Oh?

/Trying to get to Holland or France.

Damn, I really wouldn't mind seeing that footage of Lennon smoking the cheeba and writing those songs. Someone needs to release that shiat.

Ilmarinen: NimbleWalrus: If there's no Ono, there's still a Beatles.

/she broke up the band

She was the biggest katalysator, but they would've broken up eventually anyway.

/would you stay in a band with a guy who makes you rehearse Hello Goodbye and Maxwell's Silver Hammer over and over again?

THIS

I think, after careful thought, that they would have made one, maybe two more albums after Abbey Road. They would have called it quits anyhow. Bands break up all the time. They had grown up and matured and were no longer who they were when the band was formed. BUT, Yoko was the catalyst that sped up the process. They might have come back in the late 90s when George got cancer to get some more licks in before the big sleep.

The few good songs Ringo and George did would have counterbalanced the increasingly pop Paul and the angst & LSD influenced dystonal weirdness of John. I did do an AfterBeatles custom mix CD of their good solo stuff, it's not bad.