Lennon Murphy against Murphy's use of her own first name. Murphy reported on her own MySpace page that she is being sued by Ono to cease use of the "Lennon" name. The news turned up because Julian Lennon picked up a letter from Murphy and published it. Murphy wrote on Feb. 8: "Yesterday I received notice that Yoko Ono had filed a lawsuit against me, asking for a cancellation of the trademark that I own for the name 'Lennon.' This could very well mean the career that I have worked so hard at, the one you all have believed in, may come
DPP v Lennon from the receipt of emails sent by Lennon was unauthorised within the meaning of s.17(8). This was unproblematic to answer since Lennon was not the person entitled to determine whether or not such “modification” should be made. So, s.17(8a) is satisfied. Then, the question was whether Lennon “had consent to the modification from any person who was so entitled” according to s. 17(8b). As concern the issue of consent, the Divisional Court agreed that the owner of an email server would give consent to the receipt of emails. However, it held that this implied consent was not without limits. Thus,