[Rumori] Detritus Update: fan fiction, fan film, and star wars

[Zack Stiegler]

I don't think the bill addresses fan edits, nor does it specifically allow clean edits to be produced.  However, it does allows for technology to be manufactured and marketed that allows users to bypass offensive content for family viewing.  It also allows for home software to make such discs for private use, but the discs themselves must not be 'fixed' - all of the original content must be on the disc.  An interesting move nonetheless.

-Zack

"'Till there was rock, you only had god."
 -Bowie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Grant" <andrew.grant2 at verizon.net>
To: "'Detritus discussion list.'" <rumori at detritus.net>
Subject: RE: [Rumori] Detritus Update: fan fiction, fan film, and star wars
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:05:47 -0400

> 
> Hello all --
> 
> I recently wrote a piece on the FECA bill that Bush signed about two weeks
> ago. Doesn't FECA now protect people who do fan edits, as long as they don't
> try and sell it? At the very least, it could make for an interesting court
> case. Though their intention was to allow Christian companies (namely
> ClearPlay) to make "family friendly" edits, there's nothing in the bill that
> limits it to those type of edits.



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