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Court Rules Against Sanitizing Films
AP ^ | Saturday July 8, 9:52 pm

Posted on 07/08/2006 9:24:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Sanitizing movies on DVD or VHS tape violates federal copyright laws, and several companies that scrub films must turn over their inventory to Hollywood studios, an appeals judge ruled.

Editing movies to delete objectionable language, sex and violence is an "illegitimate business" that hurts Hollywood studios and directors who own the movie rights, said U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch in a decision released Thursday in Denver.

"Their (studios and directors) objective ... is to stop the infringement because of its irreparable injury to the creative artistic expression in the copyrighted movies," the judge wrote. "There is a public interest in providing such protection."

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.

"We're disappointed," CleanFlicks chief executive Ray Lines said. "This is a typical case of David vs. Goliath, but in this case, Hollywood rewrote the ending. We're going to continue to fight."

CleanFlicks produces and distributes sanitized copies of Hollywood films on DVD by burning edited versions of movies onto blank discs. The scrubbed films are sold over the Internet and to video stores.

As many as 90 video stores nationwide -- about half of them in Utah -- purchase movies from CleanFlicks, Lines said. It's unclear how the ruling may effect those stores.

The controversy began in 1998 when the owners of Sunrise Family Video began deleting scenes from "Titanic" that showed a naked Kate Winselt.

The scrubbing caused an uproar in Hollywood, resulting in several lawsuits and countersuits.

Directors can feel vindicated by the ruling, said Michael Apted, president of the Director's Guild of America.

"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 choices of a third-party editor," he said.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: busybodies; christianmedia; churchlady; cleanflicks; copyright; directorsguild; fairuse; film; hollywood; restrictchoices; richardmatsch; sanitize; secularselfrighteous; unelectedjudges; video
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To: linda_22003
We certainly could have different opinions of what constitutes Pornography and that shouldn't put us on different sides of the equation.

One of my sons (a hardened liberal) teaches music at one of the Ivy League schools up in New England.

He and I have had some very heated discussions about this very subject of what constitutes pornography.

He accuses me of being an "Out of Touch Neanderthal".

He may be right on all counts.

Thanks for the back and forth on this subject and you have a great day.
681 posted on 07/10/2006 10:06:15 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (Speak Softly and Carry A Big Stick)
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To: Central Scrutiniser
I can't handle another shift.

And yet, you persevered. I had to laugh when I saw two more go-rounds since my last post. Someone needs to kill this thing, or at least require that people read all the posts before jumping in. I guarantee that any and all questions and comments on this case have already been made.

682 posted on 07/10/2006 1:34:54 PM PDT by Defiant (MSM are holding us hostage. Vote Dems into power, or they will let the terrorists win.)
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To: Defiant

Like I said, I'm a masochist, I wanted to see how low the depths of ignorance go.


683 posted on 07/10/2006 2:30:09 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser ("You can't really dust for vomit.")
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To: Central Scrutiniser

Well, here's another place to check!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663134/posts


684 posted on 07/10/2006 2:50:00 PM PDT by linda_22003
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To: linda_22003

No!!!!!!!!!!

LOL


685 posted on 07/10/2006 2:51:20 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (You can always tell when someone is losing an argument with you, they call you "liberal!")
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To: Central Scrutiniser; linda_22003

HOLLYWOOD IS EVIL AND MUST BE STOPPED AT ALL COSTS!


686 posted on 07/10/2006 2:53:12 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell

Hey, my nephew is in film school. (at a Catholic college no less). Evangelicals hate Catholics and people in Hollywood. He is a marked man!


687 posted on 07/10/2006 2:54:14 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (You can always tell when someone is losing an argument with you, they call you "liberal!")
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To: Central Scrutiniser

Ha! He has many happy years ahead of him as a P.A.


688 posted on 07/10/2006 2:56:26 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell

He really wants to do slasher flicks, he loves cheesy stuff like that. Smart guy and its a great private college, he got to interview Quentin Tarantino a few months ago for a project. He geeked out on that.


689 posted on 07/10/2006 2:59:43 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (You can always tell when someone is losing an argument with you, they call you "liberal!")
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To: Central Scrutiniser

Very tough business not matter what genre. Highly competitive and no clear career track.


690 posted on 07/10/2006 3:02:55 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell

Yeah, he knows, but he is getting a good degree and can always go to grad school.


I have a friend whose dad was lighting specialist for decades, he used to do all the Magnum PI shows, so she grew up in Hawaii.


691 posted on 07/10/2006 3:04:17 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (You can always tell when someone is losing an argument with you, they call you "liberal!")
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To: Central Scrutiniser

In my young scuffling years I worked as an extra in a couple films. A hundred bucks a day plus food. Couldn't beat it.


692 posted on 07/10/2006 3:05:50 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell

They are always shooting films in Phoenix. We have two productions going on now, a comedy and a terrorist thriller.


693 posted on 07/10/2006 3:06:52 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (You can always tell when someone is losing an argument with you, they call you "liberal!")
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To: Central Scrutiniser

This was in NYC. If you got in good with the extra casting director you could go from one film to another for months. Three thousand a month was nothing to sneeze at back then.

Ever hear of Radio Man? A homeless guy that has been showing up on film locations for years. Every director, every star, everybody knows Radio Man. He's even in a couple of movies and TV shows. You'll see him sitting on a bus holding his radio looking serene in the background. He's considered lucky.


694 posted on 07/10/2006 3:11:13 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: Central Scrutiniser

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0144425/


695 posted on 07/10/2006 3:21:47 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell

I love it.

I hate when extras try to eat up the camera and jostle for a good shot. Usually they don't suceed, but sometimes....

Ever see Russian Ark ? 90 minute movie, filmed in one take on a mile long journey through the Hermitage museum, and there are over a thousand extras, period costumes, live music, etc.

Its a brilliant piece of work, it amazes me every time I watch.


696 posted on 07/10/2006 3:28:10 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (You can always tell when someone is losing an argument with you, they call you "liberal!")
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To: Central Scrutiniser

If my feeble memory recalls correctly, the trick to being an extra was to stand next to the prettiest girl and try to pick her up between takes. Usually she was a drama student at NYU or taking acting lessons...but hope springs eternal.


697 posted on 07/10/2006 3:31:51 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell

Watch this, its every 80's film cliche in 6 minutes! (it starts about 10 seconds into the clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C37rCtqiIKs&search=80s


698 posted on 07/10/2006 3:34:48 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (You can always tell when someone is losing an argument with you, they call you "liberal!")
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To: Central Scrutiniser

no sound on this system...


699 posted on 07/10/2006 3:52:08 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: OKIEDOC
"I want to know, when did pornography become art"

There are thousands of examples of erotic and outright pornographic art predating the antiquity period, some fertility figures going back before the written word.

My opinion on the topic has always been that a vice is something that a person allows themselves to have, be it alcohol, drugs, sex or thrillseaking. Any number of things can be damaging if you allow them to consume you, which is why the concepts of self control and moderation are so important in a free society. I've always considered the thought process of blaming the vice ( sex, tobacco, booze, ect) as a scapegoat for accepting personal responsibility for one's actions
700 posted on 07/10/2006 4:25:08 PM PDT by stacytec (Nihilism, its whats for dinner)
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