From Deseret News archives:
Film filters are a needed step
It's the splicers and dicers who are taking the heat for mutilating the work of others.
The dilemma sets up like this. When you buy the DVD, it's yours. Bend, fold and mutilate it. You can fry it up for breakfast. The rub comes if you make money off any changes you make to its content. That's messing with someone else's "intellectual property."
CleanFlicks, CleanFilms and other cinema sanitizers say they have a right to tinker with the possessions of consumers. Movie directors, actors, producers and writers say that twisting the content and selling it is a form of vandalism.
In short, the plot is thicker than a Clancy thriller.
From where we sit, the "property" argument is the only one that holds any water. When moviemakers cry foul because their "artistic creation" has been mutilated, the notion doesn't hold. Television constantly takes theatrical films and edits out strong language and nude scenes to make the films palatable to families. Airlines do the same. Film industry "artistic integrity" tends to go south quickly when big money is concerned.
Fortunately, members of Congress do not have to answer to the directors guild. They must answer to all those mothers and fathers in the heart of the country. Hollywood currently is putting the heat on CleanFlicks and other movie editing companies. If mainstream citizens put a little heat on Congress, Hollywood's clout may turn out to have less substance than tinsel.
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