Court to CleanFlicks: No!
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A federal judge has decided for the Directors Guild of America and said that purveyors to puritans don’t have the write to edit movies without permission.
Utah’s CleanFlicks, which describes itself as the largest distributor of edited movies, through online sales and rentals and sales to video stores in Utah, Arizona and other states in the region, said it would continue its fight against the guild and the studios. CleanFlicks and the others make copies of official DVD releases and then edit them for sex, nudity, violence and profanity.
Hollywood Wins Fight Against Sanitized DVDs
Reason’s Nick Gillespie - no prude:
By all accounts, the CleanFlicks-type outfits weren’t ripping off Hollywood in any way, shape, or form—they were paying full fees for content—and they weren’t fooling anyone into thinking their versions were the originals; the whole selling point of CleanFlicks’ Titanic is that it spared audiences the original movie’s brief moment of full-frontal Winslet. CleanFlicks was simply part of a great and liberatory trend in which audiences are empowered to consume culture on their own terms—not the producers’.
How Hollywood won a lawsuit while losing a cultural battle