==>忘却からの帰還:"Imagine"を無断使用したインテリジェントデザイン宣伝映画Expelled (2008/04/18)
ReutersやThe Associated Pressなどの報道によれば、インテリジェントデザイン宣伝映画Expelledにおける、"Imagine"無断使用について、Yoko Onoらが使用差し止めを求めてManhattan地方裁判所に、映画製作者および配給者を訴えた：
NEW YORK (Reuters) - John Lennon's sons and widow, Yoko Ono, are suing the filmmakers of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" for using the song "Imagine" in the documentary without permission.これについて、インテリジェントデザインの本山たるDiscovery Instituteの公式ブログは以下のように反応した：
John Lennonの息子と、未亡人Yoko Onoは、"Imagine"の無断使用で"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed"の製作者を訴えた。
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Ono, her son Sean Ono Lennon, and Julian Lennon, John Lennon's son from his first marriage, along with privately held publisher EMI Blackwood Music Inc filed suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan seeking to bar the filmmakers and their distributors from continuing to use
Yoko Onoとその息子Sean Ono Lennoと、John Lennonの最初の結婚のときの息子Julian Lennonは、個人所有の出版社EMI Blackwood Music Incとともに、Manhattan地方裁判所に、映画製作者および配給者の"Imagine"差し止めを求めて訴えた。
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"We are disappointed therefore that Yoko Ono and others have decided to challenge our free speech right to comment on the song 'Imagine' in our documentary film," they said in a statement.
映画製作者は「Yoko Onoらが、"Imagine"に対する我々のドキュメンタリー映画でコメントする言論の自由に挑戦することを決定したことに失望した」と声明で述べた。
[Yoko Ono sues "Expelled" filmmakers over Imagine (2008/04/23) on Reuters]
Executive Producers of EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed Statement on Lawsuit by Yoko Ono確かに、普通にBGMと使用したのではなく、批判対象にしたのだというのは確かなもよう:
The fair use doctrine is a well established copyright principle based on the belief that the public is entitled to freely use portions of copyrighted materials for purposes of commentary and criticism.
We are disappointed therefore that Yoko Ono and others have decided to challenge our free speech right to comment on the song Imagine in our documentary film.
Yoko Onoらが、"Imagine"に対する我々のドキュメンタリー映画でコメントする言論の自由に挑戦することを決定したことに失望した。
Based on the fair use doctrine, news commentators and film documentarians regularly use material in the same way we do in EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed .
Premise Media acknowledges that Ms. Yoko Ono did not license the song for use in the Film. Instead, a very small portion of the song was used under the fair use doctrine.
映画製作者Premise Mediaは Ms. Yoko Onoが使用許諾を映画に与えていないことを認めている。しかし、ほんの一部を"fair use doctrine"に基づいて使用している。
Unbiased viewers of the film will see that the Imagine clip was used as part of a social commentary in the exercise of free speech and freedom of inquiry. Unbiased viewers of the film will also understand that the Imagine clip was used to contrast the messages in the Documentary and that the clip was not used as an endorsement within Expelled.
[Robert Crowther: "Executive Producers of EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed Statement on Lawsuit by Yoko Ono" (2008/04/23) ]
John Lennon's "Imagine" is played (original version) over B&W scenes of what looked like communist China, with a parade of soldiers. The lyrics to the song were subtitled on the bottom of the screen. I think I remember a shot of Stalin saluting somewhere in here as well. The part of the song played was of course "...and no religion too...", implying that no religion equals communist China. Does Yoko know about this? I doubt she'd be pleased.著作権をめぐる裁判についてはManhattan地裁の判断待ちになるが、ともかくもインテリジェントデザイン運動側にとって、"Imagine"は敵なようだ。
共産中国らしきモノクロ画像で兵士の行進するバックで、John Lennonの"Imagine"が流れた。画面下部には歌詞が書かれていた。私の記憶では、スターリンがどこかで敬礼しているシーンでも、使われていた。"Imagine"の流された部分は「宗教は存在しない」で、無宗教は共産中国を意味している。Yoko Onoはこれを知っているだろうか。たぶんYoko Onoはこれを喜ばないだろう。
[Josh Timonen: "Expelled Overview" (2008/03/25) on RichardDawkins.Net]
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