Movie Sanitizers Lose in Court

Today's medianote was about CleanFlicks and other companies that alter major motion pictures to take out profanity, nudity, swearing and other stuff. My sources for this medianote were an article in the Los Angeles Times Business Section on July 10 entitled "Sanitizers of Home Video Lose in Court" and a National Public Radio story about the same topic that aired on July 11.

This medianote led to a lively classroom discussion in which students generally sided with the moviemakers' point of view. The prevailing feeling was that motion pictures are a combination of art and capitalism and that it should be illegal to alter that unique product for resale without permission.