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[somedaybitch]

A federal court has halted the further sales and distribution of motion picture videos that have been edited to remove sex, violence, and offensive-language scenes. Judge Richard P. Matsch ruled that four companies that engaged in bowdlerizing the films were violating the copyright holders' rights "to control the reproduction and distribution of the protected work in their original form." Companies named in the suit include CleanFlicks, Family Flix, Play It Clean Video and CleanFilms. In an interview with Salt Lake City's Deseret Morning News, Daniel Thompson, who owns four CleanFlicks outlets in Utah, said, "I think it's ridiculous that you can't watch a movie without seeing sex, nudity or extreme violence. I don't understand why they're trying to keep that in there." But in a statement, Michael Apted, president of the Directors Guild of America, said, "Audiences can now be assured that the films they buy or rent are the vision of the filmmakers who made them and not the arbitrary choice of a third-party editor. ... We have great passion about protecting our work, which is our signature and brand identification, against unauthorized editing."

ha ha

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

"I think it's ridiculous that you can't watch a movie without seeing sex, nudity or extreme violence. I don't understand why they're trying to keep that in there."

You can, sweetcheeks, you just can't watch a Tarantino movie.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

i don't understand why they keep trying to pretend that life isn't violent, and doesn't involve sex, and doesn't involve profanity. why do people think fairy tales and scary stories exist for kids? oi.

[themonkeycabal.livejournal.com]

I'd like to know why they keep pretending that they have no personal choice and can't simply choose not to watch things they don't want to watch.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

BECAUSETHEGOVERNMENTISEVOLOHNOESSSSSSSSSSSS

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

I was considering this too... and it dawned on me that this is kinda the ultimate in entitlement. The presumption that I should be able to control everything in my environment for my self, not as something shared, but as something that is mine. Ususally it's to a lesser extent, because life is pretty difficult without cooperation, but like the person who sat next to my door earlier in the sping and snuffed out their cigs on it, this world belongs to them. Writers and Actors owe us something. You should be able to take someone elses thoughts and modify them, and then sell them for a profit without asking or compensating them, 'cuz why do they deserve your respect?...

OI!

only slightly less worriesome, but more insideous, is a chain like wal-mart requiring that bands/record companies with lots of explicit lyrics to produce a "clean" version, that wal mart will sell. AFAIK they don't do that with movies. I would think the studios would balk. It is only slightly better that wal-mart asks the label to do this and then buys them that way, because then at least the artist can say no. But wal-mart holds the hammer, because they are such a big market... :shrug:

I'm all for parental control. I control what my children see, but that's my individual choice. I don't lazily farm that out to someone else, I don't rely on a v-chip or a movie rating. ...

/ramble

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

"I think it's ridiculous that you can't watch a movie without seeing sex, nudity or extreme violence.

oh my dear boy, we call that: "the watching another movie"...
or in it's extreme form: "the making your OWN movie..."...

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

heh

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

Hmm, by their (CleanFlix et al) logic, then, I am perfectly within my rights - copyright aside, as it's a moot point - to take the Bible and edit out all the bits with sex, nudity, and extreme violence... and re-release it and advertise it as (one assumes) A *Better* Version of The Bible.

...

Right? :D

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

:::FALLSOVERLAUGHING:::

[thevaliumsofalj.livejournal.com]

BWAH!!!! *highfives*

[itsazoo.livejournal.com]

"I think it's ridiculous that you can't watch a movie without seeing sex, nudity or extreme violence"

You can. They're rated "G", like Bambi. Oh. Wait....

[spiderbaggins.livejournal.com]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not Bambi.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

bambi's mom dies, you know.

[spiderbaggins.livejournal.com]

Whahhhhhhh whahhhhhhh I know sniff snifff.
That movie is too violent for "backwards thinking protect my kids because I don't want to take the responsibility myself otherwise I couldn't blam everyone else" people like these CleanFlicks peoples.

......My gosh oh golly gee there is a thunderstorm and FIRE too in that movie. Fire is the devil's work!!! And a rabbit named THUMPER
?!?!?!?!? We ALL know that rabbits procreate at immoral rates and naming it THUMPER is a CLEAR nod to that immoral action. Our Children should NOT know anything about S-E-X until their wedding night when they will learn that it is something to be endured between a man and his wife when the man decides it is time to do so in order for HIM to have an heir...............

YIKES!!!!! What was that!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

HEH

[spiderbaggins.livejournal.com]

oooooo
We need this federal court to look into the FCC's big brother antics towards censorship of TV shows.

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

heh, Judge Maetch would probably tell the baliff's to kick the FCC in the butt...

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

heh