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A nice welcome home present (or early birthday present)

By Lessig

We (Stanford's Fair Use Project) got word of another great success today. We're representing the filmmakers of Ben Stein's Expelled. The film is an attack on the culture that forbids "intelligent design" from being considered seriously. (I'm a member of that culture.) The film uses a 15 second snippet of John Lennon's "Imagine." Yoko Ono was not happy with the use, and sued. In a decision issued this morning, Judge Stein denied Ono's motion for an injunction against the film, finding we were likely to prevail on our fair use defense. To borrow a bit more:

"Imagine all the people Sharing all [at least some of] the world[s]."

Full post as published by Lessig Blog on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).