What about when a song that has a bad word in it gets bleeped when played on the radio?
Why is that different?
The song on the radio is not being sold. A radio station is public and there are laws in place for decency. Buying a movie and watching it is a personal choice. You pay money for that DVD.
Same goes for edited compact discs at stores like Target. The musician puts those discs out and makes money off of wha sells. If Hollywood want to do the same, they should consider it. But editing a few words in a song is easy to do and still keep the song intact. But some movies, as we all know, could actually confuse people with a lot edited out of it.
I could see movies with a "PG" rating getting edited for the few swear words. Easy fix and the producers will still rake in money.
Ridiculous.
Why is that different?
Because the artist approves the bleep of their song, otherwise it would not get played on the radio and they would not get their royalty. It's probably part of the standard BMI language.
1) the radio stations aren't selling the songs; B) it's done with the permission of the record labels (which usually do the radio edits themselves) and III) deleting foul language is required by federal law.
"What about when a song that has a bad word in it gets bleeped when played on the radio?"
And to broadcast these movies on TV they must be edited and somewhat cleansed. Nobody has a problem with that. The alphabet networks do it, so does TBS and TNT. Why Clean Flicks can't do it is beyond me - just a power play by hollywierd.