"Bowdlerizing for Columbine" piece

Slate just posted my article on the Clean Flicks lawsuit. In it, I show how moral rights theories of copyright are in tension with free speech, and argue that directors have no moral rights to their movies.

"Bowdlerizing for Columbine"
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2077192/>

Cutting sex, violence, and profanity from movies is normally considered censorship. But if studios and directors like Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh win a copyright suit against 11 small companies that permit consumers to avoid such scenes, free speech will be the loser, not the victor.
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Drew Clark
www.drewclark.com <http://www.drewclark.com> Received on Tue Jan 21 2003 - 16:11:36 GMT