Posted on 11/15/2010 8:11:19 PM PST by DemforBush
Hollywood is once again going to battle with the puritans.
A coalition of major studios including Paramount, Warner Bros., MGM, Disney, Universal and Fox has filed a lawsuit against a defendant who has taken movies, altered them to be free of objectionable content, and is distributing them to consumers as "family-friendly."
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.movies.yahoo.com ...
You don’t get it. Suppose you spent years to make a documentary that supported your politics. And suppose, once you released it that someone who disagreed with your politics took your film which you have released and are entitled to the earnings from the sale, and he edited it to the point where it supported his politics and he sold it and made money off it.
What would you do?
The films are owned and copyrighted, the owners are the ones that decide how it can be sold, nor profit from the sale. No one else is allowed that right without approval from the owners. You are not on the side of the law here.
It is one of the companies mentioned in the article that did not get sued out of existence
Rather than cut special DVDs, the ClearPlay service skips over the gratuitous kid-un-friendly material on the regularly released DVD. Apparently skipping is legal.
You have to buy one of their special DVD players and subscribe to their service -- a modest price we're willing to pay because it really broadens the selection of movies that we can watch as a family
I had to read “the catcher in the rye” while in HS. The copy they me had all the cuss words marked out.
They only edit out some of the sewage. I was appalled at what United was showing across the Pacific when I had to be locked in their plane for 14 hours with my 13 and 14 year-old.
The solution my family found was to throw the TV away a few days after our eldest was born.
As for this lawsuit, I will side with the studios over those parents who are unable to find to off switch on their TV.
He also has a deficient understanding of “art”.
Then you’ll have to find somebody interested in your philosophy of law. Have a good night.
Distributing them is wrong. However, if you bought a movie, brought it to me and asked me to edit it for you in some specific way, I don’t think that would be actionable. Just don’t distribute them, rent them, or show them to a paying audience.
You wouldn’t want any group taking a book you wrote and removing your words would you? Film is art, art should not ever be censored.
while an individual may indeed violate copyright law....they cannot censor, only the govenment can do that. I would make a deal with someone in China to edit the movies as I wanted them and to flood the market with them. They do it with everything else, why not clean movies???
That is hillarious.
What if a family bought the original DVD, then paid the cleaning company to clean it up before they watch it?
How would you feel if somebody took Sarah Palin’s book and edited the book in a manner that which contradicts the way Gov Palin intended her book to be understood?
If it had a “edited” disclaimer (perhaps an index showing precisely where/how it had been edited, like the mods do for edited threads here on FR), and if Palin received compensation for every copy sold, I’d have no problem.
I would have to disagree with you simply because these movies that these large studios put out are marketed in an invasive way to make it impossible for people to avoid them. All children are exposed to these movies by mass marketing on the public airwaves and there is extreme peer pressure in public schools to know about and be a part of “pop” culture.
Parents and all people should have the right to have things censored if that is what they want IF THE MOVIES are marketed to the masses and they promote illicit sex and illicit language. This intentional vulgarization of the masses is done intentionally by cultural Marxists who want to destroy the pillars of Western Civilization—the natural family and Christianity.
Parents have the right and duty to protect their children from language and ideas that are objectionable and will corrupt their innocence or sexualize them before they are emotionally suited to deal with that aspect of their lives.
Actually, the movie studios should do this themselves, make a clean version and a vulgar, illicit version and let the public decide what they want to buy.
But they won’t because they know what the responsible parents would buy’ and then they won’t be able to corrupt little Johnny so he will become a little secular humanist who allows government to do everything for him as long as he is entertained. Can’t have Johnny filled with excellence and idealism and a belief in God. Would sabotage the one world communist state takeover and their obama candidates.
....Seven years ago, Hollywood battled DVD sanitizers including CleanFlicks, CleanFilms, Family Flix USA, and Play it Clean Video. In July, 2006, a federal judge ruled that santized DVDs were an infringement on the copyrights of the original films and ordered the businesses to turn over their inventory. At the time, the defendants pledged to appeal, but they never did.
Although the article refers to them as "Puritans", Family Edited DVDS is a Mormon-owned business.
Related thread:
TIFF Review: Cleanflix [Documentary about how Mormons manage to watch their favorite R-rated movies]
Do you think that you would need Sarah Palin’s permission for such an undertaking?
Don’t care about the philosophy.
Lets talk copyright law. Its not their right to take the films, alter it and sell it.
Do you think it would be OK if a local station went and filmed a NFL game and broadcasted it without the right to do so would be ok?
Its not this company’s property to alter and sell. Plain and simple, they will lose, they should lose. If parents don’t want violence and nudity, then its their choice not to buy it and not to show it to their precious little snowflakes.
Actually, parody is protected use. Provided he wasn’t making money off selling the discs, fire away.
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