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Only Spielberg Can Mess With His Movies, Dammit!

July 11, 2006 by Jim Connelly

In a bit of good news for censorship foes, a Federal judge in Denver has ruled that retailers who were “sanitizing” films by removing all of the good parts prior to selling them to a probably-witting niche were also violating copyright laws.

This case has been in motion since 2002, when CleanFlicks tried to twist the First Amendment by claiming that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to these films prior to sending them out to the public. The judge, however, saw right through that bullshit:

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Filed Under: Censorship, Copyright, Movies Tagged With: Clean-Cut, CleanFlicks, DVD, Family-Flix, film, Phantom-Edit, Play-It-Clean-Video, Steven-Spielberg, Video

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