Posted on 07/09/2006 8:58:37 PM PDT by wouldntbprudent
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A federal judge in Colorado has handed the entertainment industry a big win in its protracted legal battle against a handful of small companies that offer sanitized versions of theatrical releases on DVD.
The case encompasses two of Hollywood's biggest headaches these days: the culture wars and the disruptive influence of digital technologies.
Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch came down squarely on the side of the Directors Guild of America and the major studios in his ruling that the companies must immediately cease all production, sale and rentals of edited videos.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
"How dare you take out the 3 F bombs and 1 boobie shot that otherwise had nothing to do with a great movie you wanted to watch with your family!!!"
no one has a right to change your work to their liking, for family reasons or not.. how would you like if some FR censor started editing your posts to be more politically correct..
Who owns the films? It seems pretty clear so I'm surprised it took this long to decide the case.
Previously posted...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1662608/posts
Would it be illegal to edit movies to not suck?
and how dare you take someons work and then edit it and then turn around and SELL it to make a profit.
Or like trying to fish out the poop in a batch of brownies made below the canary cage.
Hollywood is its own victim in this, imo.
It was the trailer.
Think they were renting it, not selling it. They were paying the royalities to the proper people (royalities that otherwise would not of been made).. but changing it they were.. some have suggested that they actually put the actual unedited copy and the cleaned version in the same package (I don't know about the double version to be honest, that would be interesting to know if it was true)..
What these companies were not doing was taking the artist's work without compensation... compensation was paid in the form of movie royalities as required.
(here's a blast from the past...)
as the old lead-in to "The Outer Limits" did years ago...
once again we've heard from a band of aliens living in Hollywood:
We control the horizontal
We control the vertical
We control the fart jokes, the gratuitous nudity and cursing, environmentalistic
propaganda and liberal-agenda brainwashing in our films.
We will make sure you watch all of it.
Even if we make the same money if you got an edited version without the
childish trash we crafted into the product.
that doesnt give you the right to alter their work.
My wife forced me watch Failure to Launch with her the other day. In this case, the desuckification process would leave much less than a trailer, but slightly more than a subliminal message.
Never said it did , did I?
The courts have said the "artists" have the right to pawn their smut unobstructed since they claim full ownership of all the "F" words and nudity that make the movie so very perfect...
I am just glad they have lost some viewers.. This a great decision since it has lowered their incomes...IMHO...
Maybe an establishing shot or two... how about the credits? Previews?
There is another thread about this, very long and very repetitive.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1662608/posts?q=1&&page=1
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