John Lennon Tapes Leak!
Well, maybe they didn’t really leak- but the fact is, there’s ten hours of John Lennon video that has suddenly appeared, creating a legal battle in the process. In a recent article from USAToday, Denise Lavoie of the Associated Press reported about how the video, which was recorded February 8-10, 1970, is being fought over between Yoko Ono, Lennon’s widow, and World Wide Video, LLC. Both claim to have bought the rights for the video, though no decision has been made yet over who really will have those rights legally enforced. As far as Lavoie’s writing style goes, I was a little confused as I was reading; the lede gives the impression that the piece will be a feature about Ono’s struggle to legally keep the tapes, or something along those sentimental lines. However, she switches back into some kind of inverted pyramid structure, though I’m not sure how she decided upon the importance of certain details when she was writing. If the article is about the fact that a lawsuit has been filed, then she should have put the details regarding each sides’ purchase of the rights earlier, rather than towards the end of the piece.
