Thursday, September 21, 2017

"Yoko Ono sues drinks firm selling lemonade called John Lemon"

Via Drudge: She was upset the drink was promoted with an image of his round spectacles and the line: “John Lemon, Let it Be.”

And an online image showed a mural of the singing legend — who was shot dead by a loner in 1980 — grasping a lemon tree.


Yoko sent legal letters to the Polish drinks firm and their UK distributors.

She threatened fines of £4,500 a day for hijacking John’s image and ordered them to recall all bottles.

The firm said it registered the name “John Lemon” in 2014 — two years before Lennon’s name was trademarked.

But it avoided a financially crippling court fight by agreeing to rebrand as “On Lemon” from November.

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8 comments:

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Had they named the product without co-opting the image, it might have been a good idea.

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AllenS said...

If you want to talk about someone long over due for a nonfactor designation it's, Ono Yoko

edutcher said...

Sounds like her, but I'll bet you, anti-materialist and professional idiot that she is, she never had the name copyrighted.

PS Allen, right alongside Lena Dunham.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Obligatory cliche

Don't blame it on Yokey.

MamaM said...

Mr Lemonade needed to up his game, noodle past his first rather lame idea of simply changing the nn to an m along with his use of a stock photo. The real crime is that he didn't come up with something more creative from the start, with less for Ono to oh no about.

Like Yon Lemon, accompanied by a cartoon drawing of a wavy haired guy wearing a pair of round glasses with lemons for lenses. Or something involving a periscope and lemon shaped submarine where a double mental connection would need to be made in place of the more direct connection use of the name John and the photo prompted.

I knew a set designer who required his theater students as part of their grade to each submit their best set design ideas for the play being studied. After grading them on the quality of that submission, he'd ask them to come up with a 2nd (and eventually a 3rd) design that was totally different from the one before it. While that process drove the students nuts, according to him it resulted in some of the freshest, most creative and engaging ideas emerging.

MamaM said...

O I C

The photo I thought was a photo isn't a photo but a semi-realistic looking mural picture and the actual bottle label only bears the name John Lemon in pale letters, which is all the more lame, cheap looking and offensive to me for lack of imagination evident.

The Dude said...

Only three ideas? The design process around here requires dozens of sketches sometimes. I know, I know, why not keep going until I hit a good idea, but a fellow gets tired, just sayin'...