Posted by PTravel on 07/12/06 00:48

"Martin Heffels" <youwishyouwouldknow@nottellinya.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:19:36 GMT, Larry in AZ
> <usenet2@DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com> wrote:
>
>>????
>
> That quote from the judge's ruling is a bit too loose to understand
> properly for somebody for whom English is a second language :-)
>
> I don't understand the fuzz. The mentioned Cleanflicks buys a legal
> uncensored version, and packs this together with the censored version. It
> looks like a popular thing the sale of family-safe edits.

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.

>
> 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.

> 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.

>
> 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.

> 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.

>
> cheers
>
> -martin-
> --
> "I'm full of dust and guitars." - Syd Barrett
> 11/07/06 The Crazy Diamond is now a star in heaven

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