*sputter*

[fox]

okay, it's probably not much of a mystery how i feel about "sanitized versions" of films on DVD.  (cleverclever people buy a DVD, edit out [what they consider to be] objectionable content, and sell it at a markup.)  i hear what they're saying about just wanting to be able to see a film without sex and violence, and my response is (a) there are plenty of films that legitimately don't have sex or violence; or (b) so become a producer.  you don't get to screw around with existing work and sell it at a profit.  worst case scenario, these guys could end up hurting us, by which i mean fans, who are so careful not to make a profit with our screwing-around-with-existing-work.  we do what we do because we like the original, man.  we add; we don't subtract.

but anyway.  this paragraph made me choke:

Some films are beyond editing.  Family Flix didn't even try to sanitize the ultra-violent "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" because it would have been reduced to almost nothing.  For the same reason, it won't touch movies in which a character appears "immodestly dressed" in too many scenes.  It also has not tackled Mel Gibson's violent but reverential "Passion of the Christ," because, [Sandra] Teraci [of Family Flix] says, "everyone has already seen it."

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GRAR.

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[darthfox.livejournal.com]

channels? permission? they're buying the DVDs at ordinary retail stores and editing them on their home computers. they are now the subject of a handful of lawsuits.

just, as you say, it's one thing to do it without profit and etc., for the love of the material, and quite another to, to, to, gah. i do have a fairly stubborn "death of the author" streak that says listen, once the work is out there, it doesn't belong to the creator of it anymore -- but, like, that streak is constantly at war with the feeling that as a consumer, one of the ways i approach a thing is with awareness that someone made it the way s/he made it for a reason. it's not quite the post-modern thing where i must know all about the writer before the text can have its full meaning -- but i don't read the last page of a book first, because as a writer i take considerable care to set things up and i don't want to cheat someone else out of the ability to surprise me, etc. -- which is really more a comment about spoilers than anything else, but it applies here too. a filmmaker makes a film, and he makes all of it.

(and i used to work in IP too. [g] not a lot of copyright, though. patents, patents, patents, as far as the eye could see.)

[chains-of-irony.livejournal.com]

Woo! Barthes! I have to have a "death of the author" streak, I own an Anne Rice fanfic community. *fears*

Really hope this doesn't affect fans who create for the love it it, like you said.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

[beats up anne rice just on general principle][g]