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Posted by Martin Heffels on 07/12/06 02:19
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:48:15 -0700, "PTravel" <ptravel@ruyitang.com> wrote:
>The censored version is an unauthorized derivative work, in violation of the
>U.S. Copyright Act. Ownership of an authorized copy of a protected work
>does not convey the right to create a new copy consisting of your own
>version.
Yes, I understand that. So companies like Cineflicks could do their work by
paying a fee to the copyright-holder to be allowed to make an edit, and all
would be good.
>> Now because of this ruling, people won't start buying the uncensored
>> version, because they have no choice anymore of buying a censored version.
>
>Which is exactly right. The copyright owner has complete control over the
>distibution of his expression. If he doesn't want a bowdlerized version
>distributed, it is his right, pursuant to U.S. copyright law, to preclude
>it.
Sure. But that means loss of sale.
>
>> No, they won't buy these movies at all. So that means a loss in sales for
>> the studios. Didn't anyone consider that?
>
>Obviously, the studios, since they, along with the DGA, were plaintiffs.
OK.
>>
>> Maybe the studios should offer the censored versions themselves then.
>
>They do, to this extent. Studio films are edited with a target rating in
>mind, and that frequently entails snipping the dirty bits. However, if they
>wanted to release a G-rated version of a film, they would. Clearly, they do
>not.
Most movies can easily do without the dirty bits, because they don't really
offer anything to the story. They are only put in to make the product
attractive enough for the young male target audience (the major target
audience that is). In my humble opinion there is nothing lost in cutting
them out, and releasing a clean version, so that a movie can be distributed
to a wider audience.
>> I
>> think it would be easy to set bits for a scene which tell whether there is
>> violent, nudity, drugs, whatever, and via parental-control you can set
>> which things you allow your children to watch, and automatically those
>> scenes are censored, based on the parental settings.
>> If this technique is introduced, remeber, I am the inventor of it :-D
>
>Look up a company called, I think, CleanPlay. They have software that does
>just that.
I read that. They have it slightly different from what I had in mind, but
similar.
cheers
-martin-
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