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Defending Fair Use - The Clean Flicks Case
posted by md on Tuesday October 15, @02:54PM
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Copyright Ernest Miller writes "LawMeme has published a series of articles on the "Clean Flicks" case. What is the "Clean Flicks" case? It is a lawsuit between the Directors Guild of America and a number of companies that provide editing services or technology to consumers, so that they can manipulate how they watch movies they have purchased on video or DVD. For example, one company's software automatically skips past the nude scene in the movie Titanic. While you may not agree with skipping any part of Kate Winslet's performance, the DGA's position would give them complete control over DVD technology implementation. It would prevent the creation of homebrew annotations and commentaries on movies. It would set a terrible precedent for other technologies as well. DRM would not only be protected by laws such as the DMCA, or proposed CBDTPA, but by a concept of so-called "moral rights" controlled by centralized organizations such as the DGA or Writers Guild of America, west. In its latest article, LawMeme brings the hypocrisies of the WGAw into the light .

Read other stories in the "Clean Flicks" series:
Let a Thousand Edits Bloom
Silly Things Directors Say
DGA Pres to Duchamp: You Scoundrel!
Rewind to the Future
The MST3K Syndrome - Coming Soon to a Home Near You? "

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    Defending Fair Use - The Clean Flicks Case | Login/Create an Account | Top | 2 comments | Search Discussion
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    The DGA is right (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 18, @10:50AM (#391)
    Authors should be able to control how their creative works reach the public. Otherwise, the messages that they seek to convey will weaken during the editing process. This argument may seem trivial for some movies, but consider the impact of creating a clean version of Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan (two movies which Clean Flicks does edit). This is not only a moral argument, but also has basis in American law, where courts have found it illegal to "mutilate" another's work.
    Re:The DGA is right (Score:1)
    by Ernest_Miller on Friday October 18, @07:16PM (#395)
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    Perhaps, with some limitations, but they certainly should not have the right to control how people experience their creative works in the privacy of their own home.

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