John Lennon videos frozen pending hearing

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NEW YORK (AFP) — John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono and a group of collectors agreed Wednesday to not release video footage of the late Beatle pending a Boston court ruling on who controls it, lawyers said.

Representatives of Ono and of World Wide Video, a group of collectors of Beatles memorabilia, met Wednesday to set a first date for their court battle over the footage, some of which shows Lennon smoking marijuana, writing songs and wondering if he should drug Richard Nixon.

"Both parties agreed not to show the film while the matter is before the court," Claire Papanastasiou, a spokesperson for Ono's legal team, told AFP.

Ono and World Wide are battling over the rights to hours of video tapes of Lennon made by Ono's first husband Anthony Cox in 1970, with the...