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U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein dismissed Yoko Ono's (the former Beatle wife you wish would go away) lawsuit claiming that anti-evolution "documentary" Expelled played a 15-second clip of John Lennon's song Imagine without her permission.

The judge ruled that, were the case to go to trial, it would likely be found that the excerpt from the song fell within fair-use guidelines.

The defendants were Premise Media Corp. of Dallas, Rampant Films of Sherman Oaks, Calif., and Rocky Mountain Pictures Inc. of Salt Lake City, and the film is narrated by Ben Stein, who is intelligent in some areas (business) and less intelligent in others.

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