RE: "Bowdlerizing for Columbine" piece

Read it. Liked it. Do you happen to have a copy of the complaint or other documents filed in the case providing in more detail the legal arguments? And am I correct that this case is Huntsman et al. v. Soderbergh, et al.?

Thanks!

Maureen Cohen Harrington

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> 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.
> [...]
>
> Drew Clark
> www.drewclark.com <http://www.drewclark.com>
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Received on Wed Jan 22 2003 - 15:23:37 GMT