Re: "Bowdlerizing for Columbine" piece

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 1:13AM -0500, Lawrence D.W. Graves wrote:
> I'm definitely missing something about this whole issue. The TV
> networks have been doing exactly the same kind of "edited for TV"
> sanitization for decades and nobody has come howling after NBC. If I
> can pay cable fees to enable me to make VCR copies of the edited work
> from a TV network, why can't I pay for a videotape that makes exactly
> the same kind of edits? Both vendors clearly are using the edited
> works for commercial purposes.

It will be interesting to read the eventual decision when it deals with the four fair use factors. The final factor, effect on the market for the work, I think argues in favor of fair use. If a copy is purchased from the copyright holder for every edited copy sold, it's pretty obvious that this *increases* the market for the work.

The moral rights theories just have no standing in US law. I can't see how anything could come of them.

Roy Murphy \ CSpice: A Mailing List for Clergy Spouses murphy@panix.com \ http://www.panix.com/~murphy/CSpice.html Received on Fri Jan 24 2003 - 13:30:01 GMT