It’s one thing to be slipshod and sleazy in your depiction of evolutionary science and how it is taught in American schools. You might bore the pants off the general public and piss off a lot of scientists, but you may make a few bucks at it.
It’s another thing to use a copyrighted song without permission. And not just any song—John Lennon’s Imagine, the third-greatest song of all time, according to the bible of song, Rolling Stone magazine. By getting on the wrong side of Yoko Ono (and the Lennon boys, along with EMI Blackwood Music Inc.), the producers of the pseudodocumentary Expelled may find themselves on the painful end of a very expensive transaction.
Retribution most undivine, but well deserved.
[h/t to P.Z. Myers]
Addendum 2008.04.24: I should have noted that my natural aversion to such litigation is trumped in this case by the odor level of the product involved and, more importantly, the risk that the film will mislead the gullible on an important topic.
