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Yoko Ono wins rights to intimate footage of John Lennon

A federal court in Boston, Massachusetts last week ruled that Yoko Ono was the rightful copyright holder, according to her lawyer Jonathan Albano.

However, he declined to say whether Ono would publicly release the documentary tapes, which includes scenes of Lennon smoking marijuana and composing.

"Our client is very happy in winning the case," Mr Albano said.

The lawsuit dated back to last year, when World Wide Video, a consortium of collectors of Beatles memorabilia based in Massachusetts, filed a lawsuit against Ono for blocking a screening of a two-hour documentary it produced culling the rare footage.

The company had planned to show the film, titled "3 Days in the Life," in 2007, billing it as "a most intimate and no-holds-barred" look at Lennon's private life with his family and friends.

On the tapes, Lennon, who was murdered in 1980, is also seen joking about lacing former president Richard Nixon's tea with the hallucinogenic drug LSD and composing songs like his own "Remember" and the Beatles' "Mind Games"...
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)