Ono wins rights to Lennon footage

Yoko Ono has won a lawsuit against a group of collectors who disputed her rights to movie footage capturing intimate moments of John Lennon.

Last year, Ono filed the suit against World Wide Video for using footage of Lennon in a film, entitle “3 Days in the Life,” a two hour documentary that was billed as “a most intimate and no-holds-barred” showing Lennon’s private life with his family and friends.

Last week in a Boston courtroom, a federal court ruled that Ono was the rightful copyright holder, blocking the Massachusetts company from showing the film, which showed Lennon smoking marijuana and composing.

World Wide Video, consortium of collectors of Beatles memorabilia, claimed it had bought the rights to the footage from Ono’s former husband, Anthony Cox, in 1970