[Rumori] Unfixed Subtraction is """"Legal""""

[Steve McQuillen]

ClearPlay? cLEARpLAY!?

Like ClearChannel?

I guess this guy really wants to be to the film industry what Lowry  
Mays was to the FM radio industry: the guy who created a rated G  
safety beacon which destroys and/or assimilates all other 'dirty'  
broadcasts and/or recordings whilst raking in the big bucks from Joe  
Average Christian. I can see this forcing the studios to release  
several different edits of their films. In 20 years, it will become  
rare for a 'big name director' to get a deal signed where no edited  
version will be made. Some movies will advertise to the vast (and  
extremely profitable) concerned parent set that "NO SAFETY EDIT  
VERSION WAS NEEDED - THIS FILM IS ORIGINALLY 100% WHOLESOME AND  
CUDDLY AND CLEAN".

What do they consider to be "imperceptble changes"? Could this  
company get sued by Lucas for cutting someone in mid-sentence? Who  
would be the judge of the aesthetic qualities of a cut, a fade, a  
wipe, etc. when the software deals with 'bad scenes'? If someone  
considers 95% of a movie to be "bad", is that still an accepted  
subtractive edit?

I want to sell subtractive edits, though: fixed edits on plastic. And  
I want to sell additive works, too.

Shower to the Sheeple.

Steve Orina

On May 04, 2005, at 9:14 PM, PeterALopez wrote:

> According to the new Family Movie Act of 2005, it's now  
> """"legal"""" to make unfixed subtractive works!
> via: http://www.forbes.com/2005/04/29/cz_sf_0429clearplay.html
> U.S. copyright law makes it illegal to sell edited versions of  
> Hollywood films. But the Family Movie Act says if you use software  
> to "mak[e] imperceptible changes to...limited portions of audio or  
> video content of a motion picture...from an authorized copy of the  
> motion picture," you're OK. Just don't create a "fixed copy of the  
> altered version."
>
>
> yeah...maybe...
>
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