From Deseret News archives:
Filter cleans up films legally
ClearPlay steps up marketing of its family-friendly viewing device
Even the word "thong" from "Shrek 2" is not something that ClearPlay.com sales and marketing director Pete Maughan wants his young children hearing.
"I thought it was funny," he said, "but do I want my 7-year-old hearing that? I wish I hadn't laughed about some things. That's why I hate some of the PG-13, crass movies; I laugh at humor I wish I hadn't."
So to avoid those potentially awkward moments, ClearPlay.com has created a new advertising campaign to highlight its special DVD player and downloadable filters. By the end of this week, I-15 travelers should notice the very quotable and very family appropriate ads.
"ClearPlay is a tool to allow people to choose who is welcome in their home and who is not welcome in their home," Maughan said.
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In the past, families wanting squeaky clean movies would rent or buy them from edited movie shops in Utah County.
A Colorado judge ruled in July 2006 that edited movies cause "irreparable injury to the creative artistic expression in the copyrighted movies" and cannot continue, according to court documents.
ClearPlay.com was initially named in that suit, but after they helped pass the Family Movie Act of 2005, which gave families control to edit what was in their home, ClearPlay could defend itself under that same act and were dropped from the lawsuit.
The difference is that ClearPlay's technology doesn't permanently change the film.
"Families can edit movies for their own viewing," said Pete Maughan. "Nothing comes out of the movie unless the family, the parent, the movie watcher chooses."
It starts with ClearPlay editors who screen every new movie and thousands of ones already on the market, all the way back to the 60s, making notes of every sex scene, violent act, curse word or profane reference to God.
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