Yoko Ono and her kin, along with privately held publisher EMI Blackwood Music Inc. are suing the pro-creationist film, “Expelled:No Intelligence Allowed,”and its producers (Premise Media) for the unlawful use of John Lennon’s 1971 classic song, “Imagine.”
They’re claiming the fair-use doctrine, but whatever Ono’s going to sue them into the stone age, wait, they probably don’t believe in that. Sue them back in to the B.C. days?
Either way, Ben Stein the star of the doc has shot back at Yoko via a damning press release.
“So Yoko Ono is suing over the brief Constitutionally protected use of a song that wants us to ‘Imagine no possessions’? Maybe instead of wasting everyone’s time trying to silence a documentary she should give the song to the world for free? After all, ‘imagine all the people sharing all the world…You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the World can live as one.'”
Case closed? Surely that sharp defense would win over Judge Judy or at least Judge Reinhold, no? It is Hollywood, so we should assume one of the two should have some jurisdiction here.
Honestly, have you never heard how litigious Yoko is about Beatles material, let alone John Lennon’s? And it’s fucking “Imagine,” are you guys completely stupid or just a little stupid? Case in point…
“If you really listen to the lyrics of ‘Imagine’ then you realize that it represents everything that the Neo-Darwinists want,” Walt Ruloff Executive Producer and CEO of Premise Media said in an airtight, shut-and-close argument and pointing out the irony of the song use (how clever and kind of you to explain). ” ‘Imagine there’s no Heaven…No hell below us…Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too…’ That’s exactly what the Darwinist establishment wants to do: get rid of religion. And that’s what we point out when we play less than 15 seconds of the song and show some of the lyrics on screen.”
You’re out of order! The whole friggin’ system’s out of order!! Best of luck their kids. No intelligence allowed, indeed.