Ono in fight over copyright of rarely seen Lennon video
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By DENISE LAVOIE BOSTON (AP) - They are rare, intimate images of John Lennon just before the breakup of the Beatles: He's hunched over a piano writing songs, smoking pot, joking about putting LSD in President Nixon's tea. Almost four decades after the footage was shot at Lennon's estate in England, his widow is in court, fighting to keep the images private. World Wide Video LLC, a Lawrence, Mass.-based company, claims it owns the 10 hours of raw footage, but Yoko Ono claims she is the rightful owner. World Wide Video has filed a federal lawsuit against Ono, claiming Ono's attempts to stop the company from publicly showing the footage is a copyright infringement. Read More Here:http://www.gateway.net/celebrity/story.jsp?floc=ce-more-index_all_music&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20080501%2F0812113637.htm&sc=1403
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