A ruling against four companies that edit Hollywood movies to remove the dirty bits, without the studios’ permission, could be trouble for mash-ups, as well as sites like Google Video and YouTube that host them.
In the war between Silicon Valley and Hollywood over the reach of copyright law, Tinseltown has won a victory that may cause online video sites like YouTube.com and Google Video to reconsider hosting altered versions of copyrighted content.
Last week, four companies that rent and sell Hollywood films stripped of their original sex, violence, and profanity were found to be violating copyright law.
A ruling issued July 6 by a federal judge in Colorado finds that CleanFlicks, ASR Management Corp., Family Flix USA, and Play It Clean Video are infringing copyrights by offering motion pictures that have been sanitized without consent of the copyright holder and must cease doing so.
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