A federal appeals judge says sanitizing movies on D-V-D or V-H-S tape violates U-S copyright laws.
U-S District Judge Richard Matsch (MAYCH) has ruled that editing movies to delete objectionable language, sex and violence is an “illegitimate business” that hurts Hollywood studios and directors who own the movie rights.
Matsch ordered the companies named in the suit, including CleanFlicks, Play It Clean Video and CleanFilms, to stop “producing, manufacturing, creating” and renting edited movies. The businesses also must turn over their inventory to the movie studios within five days of the ruling.
CleanFlicks chief executive Ray Lines says he’s “disappointed” and vows “to continue to fight.”
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I suspect these guys just didn’t offer the studios enough money.
I don’t like this prescedent because it can also be applied to removing adverts. The scumbag lawyers arguments goes that if I buy a box that skips or blanks adverts I’m making a derivative work from copyrighted material.
I dont beleive the precedent would be set for that zaph
commercials are different entities containing their own copyrights (put a copyrighted ad in your portfolio and try and get a job at the same ad agency that owns the copyright:) it will be interesting and educational)
so if tv shows were to do that they would have to sell ads wayyyy ahead of time in order to integrate it into the show…since ads are based on a set price ba sed on the projected number of people who see them it would be very difficult for a tv show to pitch an ad space to a client and make it part of their show without proven data
therefor new shows would have a more difficult time finding advertisers and since the TV and cable networks want to make it as easy as possible for people to do business with them I doubt they would use this as a precedent…theres too much work involved and too many changes that need to be ade on the content providers end of things
It will not be applied to removing advertisments. Because they are for your personal viewning. If you remove the advertisments then resale/rent them out it does apply.