Judge Rules in Favour of the Movie Industry
A U.S. federal judge in Colorado has ordered that companies which produced “sanitized” versions of films destroy all copies of the movies they have tinkered with, Reuters reports.
Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch came to his decision on Thursday which was against the Utah-based CleanFlicks, CleanFilms and Play It Clean Video, Arizona-based Family Flix USA and CleanFlicks of Colorado.
The companies would delete vulgar language and scenes in films to make them family friendly, and then sell the cleaner copies. Matsch ordered all copies be destroyed within five days of the ruling.
“Their business is illegitimate. The right to control the content of the copyrighted work … is the essence of the law of copyright,” Matsch wrote in his ruling.
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