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Major Victory for Fair Use!

email   discuss Posted by Maura Ugarte on Jun 5, 2008 at 2:39 PM

In a recent ruling, judge Sidney Stein stated that the filmmakers of Expelled, a film supporting intelligent design, were likely to win a fair use claim if Yoko Ono persued her suit against them. The filmmakers used a 15 second clip of John Lennon’s song “Imagine” to make a statement on religion in our culture—read the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog entry on the subject: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/06/02/yoko-onos-injunction-request-denied-in-federal-expelled-case/?mod=googlenews_wsj

Also, here’s AJ Schnack’s concise summary: http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2008/06/expelled-fights.html

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