July 10, 2006:
"LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter): A federal judge in Colorado has handed the entertainment industry a big win in its protracted legal battle against a handful of small companies that offer sanitized versions of theatrical releases on DVD."
The Judge said that companies who take a movie, cut out the swearing and any nudity, then sell or rent this cleansed version to audiences who would never touch the original are breaking the law and violating the Studios' copyright....Yet American network television does the exact same things [and much worse] and no representative of a studio or Director utters one single word of complaint??
The studios are reaching audiences they would otherwise have no chance to acquire, and the Actors are gaining fans and admiration from the very same group. Meanwhile the studios are receiving $1,000's in royalties from hundreds of extra sales of a movie in a format they are apparently too short-sighted to be creating themselves!
...What exactly are we missing here?
"LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter): A federal judge in Colorado has handed the entertainment industry a big win in its protracted legal battle against a handful of small companies that offer sanitized versions of theatrical releases on DVD."
The Judge said that companies who take a movie, cut out the swearing and any nudity, then sell or rent this cleansed version to audiences who would never touch the original are breaking the law and violating the Studios' copyright....Yet American network television does the exact same things [and much worse] and no representative of a studio or Director utters one single word of complaint??
The studios are reaching audiences they would otherwise have no chance to acquire, and the Actors are gaining fans and admiration from the very same group. Meanwhile the studios are receiving $1,000's in royalties from hundreds of extra sales of a movie in a format they are apparently too short-sighted to be creating themselves!
...What exactly are we missing here?
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