Importing Videos from iPhone 4, via itunes to iPad2 & imovie

After discussions with Apple support today, it appears that i can not import videos i have taken on my iPhone4 to my iPad2 (via itunes) in order to be edited in iMovie.
Reason given was something to do with copyright?!
I find this quite astonishing to be fair based on the iphone 4 being the easier device to carry around and record HD videos on compared to the iPad. i would have thought the integration between the devices and swapping fiels over would have been more straight forward.
This may not be a new issue to some so i am wondering if ther eis a work around? Can i create an imovie doc on my iphone 4 with the relevant videos included and import that file instead so as to do further editing on the ipad?
is there an alternative way of getting my videos i have taken with the iphone4 onto the ipad so i can edit in imovie?
Many thanks in advance for any responses
Cheers
Adam

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