Thank you for your kind attention,
Yoko
-how a comment left on If You Write It was signed.
A couple of posts back I wrote about Lennon Murphy and Yoko Ono. It was my usual rambling on about something I read in Google Trends and thought I might have an opinion about. I tend to write these things and move on, then smile if they show up in my stats down the road a ways. But this post was like, yesterday.
Yoko says: “I am really hurt if people thought that I told a young artist to not use her own name in her performances and had sought to sue her. I did no such thing. I hope this allegation will be cleared.“
Yoko Ono denies suing Lennon Murphy for wanting to preform under her own name. Yoko says that Lennon Murphy is trying to copyright the name Lennon for all musical purposes. To be honest, I didn’t know you could copyright a name for all musical purposes. But then, maybe some small talk symphony orchestra might want to call themselves KISS. So you can’t be too careful.
Here is a bit more of the Yoko Comments:
A musician named Lennon Murphy is claiming that Yoko Ono has sued her and that Yoko is seeking to stop Lennon Murphy from performing under her name, Lennon Murphy. Both of these claims are untrue.
Yoko did not sue Lennon Murphy, but sought to stop her from getting the exclusive right to the name Lennon for performance purposes. For that, Yoko’s attorneys, simply notified the Trademark office that Yoko did not believe it was fair that Ms. Murphy be granted the exclusive right to the “Lennon” trademark in relation to musical and entertainment services. As you can see, this is a very important issue for Yoko and the Lennon family.
The comment was signed Yoko and had a link to imaginepeace.com.
My blog was not the only one given this comment, several other posts talk about the odd sight of seeing a comment signed Yoko. I have to say that I am a bit flatter to be in the company of Boing Boing in getting one of these canned comments, though the Boing Boing comments seemed a bit more personalized.
There’s a Sports Radio show that their whole gimmick is getting emails signed by famous people, both living and dead, and often not very flattering to the famous person in question. It would be easy just as easy to leave fake comments signed by famous people as well. This Yoko One vs Lennon Murphy comment seems legit enough, and I was right about Lennon wanting her fifteen minutes of fame.
So is this really a comment from Yoko Ono? Or just more nonsense to keep us all talking?
