[stillonaroll]

Nobody can advocate altering the contents of a book, for example, and selling that for a profit, but they see no problem with editing a movie for distribution.

I certainly can. As long as the copyright holder is duly compensated upon resale of each unit, and the alteration is sufficiently disclosed to the buyer. Can you say “fair use”?

[GatorGirl]

No, I can't say "fair use" in the context of this violation of copyright.

The editing companies are not "commenting on" or "criticising" or "parodying" these movies. They are taking a work, making changes to it and reselling it. The very narrow copyright exception does not cover this circumstance.

Sorry.