[FreedomCalls]

If its being edited it is being altered away from the original without permission from the copyright holder. How hard is it for you to understand that?

So you are saying that the TV version is produced without the permission of the copyright holder? How is that possible? For in the example of the Titanic for instance, since I am familiar with this one, the only cuts the company makes are the exact same ones in the TV release.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

How is that possible? For in the example of the Titanic for instance, since I am familiar with this one, the only cuts the company makes are the exact same ones in the TV release.

Because the TV release assuredly has the permission of the copyright holder. In fact, they probably have signed an exclusive rights contract for broadcasting it. The copyright holder doesn't have to grant rights to those they don't want to.

[BigSkyFreeper]

So you are saying that the TV version is produced without the permission of the copyright holder? How is that possible? For in the example of the Titanic for instance, since I am familiar with this one, the only cuts the company makes are the exact same ones in the TV release.

Cable and TV networks pay for and buy rights to the movies (NBC for instance has access to the Universal Studios produceds films and already have permission from that studio), which for networks are edited at the movie studio for content and time constraints. This agreement in effect gives the TV stations permission to air the edited product.