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Yoko sues “Lennon” (Thanks BoingBoing)

Yet another money and publicity whoring celebrity who has their head stuck too far up their ass to know whats good for them

Yoko Ono, widow of former Beatles member John Lennon, is suing singer-songwriter (and Suicide Girl) Lennon Murphy for alleged “tarnishment” of John Lennon’s name.Ms. Murphy’s band is called Lennon, and she is attempting to register that band name as a trademark.

Both Donna and Pete are huge (bold tags do not enough… HUGE) fans of Lennon. I never had the pleasure of getting to a show, but seeing this bullshit come across is enough to yank me out of blog slumber.

I hate seeing this kind of rampant grabbing of nonexistent intellectual property rights happening, especially by someone who only holds rights to a certain word by marriage. John’s own son supports Lennon in this, and I would hope readers here do too.

Thanks to BoingBoing for the catch and posting this; it will bring this to a much larger audience.

[Yoko Sues "Lennon", via BoingBoing]

edit: Techdirt picked it up too