Will Legal Loophole Open the Door Again?
From the AP:
PROVO, Utah — Film editors were back in the cutting room just a few months after a federal appeals judge ruled last year that they could no longer edit movies to make them acceptable family fare.
Thanks to what they say is a loophole in copyright law that allows cuts for educational purposes, some of the companies that were ordered to turn over their inventory to Hollywood studios instead are scrubbing more movies, and other firms are getting into the market.
Film editors say the education clause can be used to get around the July 2006 ruling by Judge Richard P. Matsch that sanitizing movies on DVD or VHS tape violates federal copyright laws. The ruling was thought to have marked the end of a three-year legal battle between several film editing companies and 16 Hollywood directors started by a Colorado CleanFlicks store.
Matsch ordered Utah-based CleanFlicks and others named in the suit, including Play It Clean Video of Ogden and CleanFilms of Provo, to stop deleting racy scenes to clean up movies for rental and ordered the businesses to turn over their inventory to the movie studios within five days.
At the time of the ruling, CleanFlicks said it sold scrubbed films to as many as 90 video stores nationwide, about half of them in Utah, home to a large population of Mormons. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discourages members from watching R-rated films.
A message left Sunday on a Director’s Guild of America media contact line was not immediately returned. The guild represented many of the parties involved with the original Colorado lawsuit against CleanFlicks.
April 21st, 2007 at 12:21 am
I am really intrested in finding out, too, if I can again rent movies that are “edited” because I really liked them while we could get them, and it didn’t take a thing from the movie except THAT which wasn’t needed anyway, I loved it!
Where can they be rented in Layton, Northern Utah area????
May 28th, 2007 at 12:41 am
It is my right to purchase movies that have been scrubbed of garbage as it is of a man walking into a porn shop to buy garbage. If they don’t like the scrubbed version, don’t buy it.Simple as that.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
I’ve searched recently for edited movie companies, only to find that most of them have shut their doors. However, I did come across one that is still operational, although they do not rent edited movies. Clean DVD Movies at http://www.cleandvdmovies.com
June 6th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Like Jessica, many of the sites are closing down but, I found this site recently, although they do not rent, they still have some good titles. http://familyfocusfilms.org/
November 26th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I just started to try to find edited movies to rent and its almost impossible i just dont understand how its there right to make moves with that and not ours to watch it with out garbage in it This judge makes me sick i geuss we know what he likes to watch lol
December 12th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Hello,
I just signed up for the newsletter - is the 10% discount coupon to clearplay still valid (see below)? If so, how do I get it?
Thank you.
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December 12th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Hi Laura,
You should have received a newsletter subscription confirmation email that contains the discount code.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I just received the coupon code for 10% off from subscribing for the newsletter but its coming up invalid on clearplay.com
March 11th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Does anyone have a promo code for this site. They offer edited movies
March 11th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Goodmoviesonline.com
March 21st, 2008 at 3:01 am
here is a promo code I got on a flyer, it still works. just type in “movie”.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:08 pm
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