Via the AP: Court Rules Against Sanitizing Films
Sanitizing movies on DVD or VHS tape violates federal copyright laws, and several companies that scrub films must turn over their inventory to Hollywood studios, an appeals judge ruled.
I don’t know the law, so couldn’t say what the appropriate ruling should have been.
However, one question that comes to mind in the overall context of this case is why the movie studios themselves don’t sell their own edited versions of the films in question? It would open up a whole new market, it would seem to me.
And let’s face facts, most films (although granted, not all) would hardly be any different if a couple of f-bombs were removed or if they contained less T&A.
Although, as James Joyner notes, some films would be far shorter.
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And let’s face facts, most films (although granted, not all) would hardly be any different if a couple of f-bombs were removed or if they contained less T&A.
Amen, brother! Case in point: Double Jeopardy, a recent thriller starring Ashley Judd. At the beginning of the movie, we get a softcore scene of Judd making love to her husband. Why? To establish that they were married? Uhhh, probably not.
I’m fine with sex, violence, and profanity, when they’re necessary for the story. It’d be hard to make a thriller like, say, Klute, in which one of the main characters is a high-class prostitute, without having that character be frank about sex. However, that’s a lot different than (pardon my choice of words) sticking in a sex scene just because you think that you can’t get the 17 year-olds to watch a movie without seeing Ashley Judd’s bare bodkin.
Comment by Kingdaddy — Sunday, July 9, 2024 @ 10:30 pm
I do not see what the big deal is, especially when you see movies edited for content and language for TV all the time.
Case in point: AMC had Scarface tonight, without one F-bomb!
Comment by Mark — Sunday, July 9, 2024 @ 11:31 pm