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.

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 based 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