On 3/7/05, Greg Depasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As reported in engadget (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000683034752/): > > "The Hollywood studios don't much like it at all, but Congress is > finally going to bat for the right of consumers to enjoy movies they > way they want to. It just happens to be in protection of censorware > programs like ClearPlay that automatically edit out anything that > could conceivably make a movie family unfriendly. Anyway, to protect > your right to remove the topless scene from Titanic, the House is > about to pass the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, a > bill which the Senate already approved last month and is expected to > easily score a presidential signature. The bill would make it > explicitly clear that it is not a violation of copyright law to alter > somebody's work without permission, as long as it's for private use > only and these altered copies of the work are not redistributed in > anyway. We actually sort of agree with this one—people should be > allowed to do what they want with the DVDs they buy (just like it's > perfectly legal for someone to black out all the naughty parts of > books)—but hopefully just to piss off Congress someone'll figure out a > way to add a little extra sex, violence, and profanity to movies." > > I would think that this would be welcome legislation to us especially > in the area of comm'l skip. I just wonder if it applies.
i heard on NPR this morning that the Family Movie/Entertainment Act 'did' pass and that Clearplay is now legally allowed to sell their products. it sounds like Congress does get things right once in a while. ;)
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