There’s a big industry in renovated, santized content. But nobody’s asking the creators of that content for permission to alter the creative nature of their artwork. Yuck.
I remember seeing a story on the news about a company that was “cleaning up” Titanic. “This couldn’t be legal or OK with the directors,” I mused. Well it turns out it is illegal — there are laws against altering movies and reselling them under the same name. And the directors are plenty pissed about it too.
See the story by Rick Lyman for the NY Times:
Hollywood Balks at High-Tech Sanitizers
“This is very dangerous, what’s happening here,”
said Jay D. Roth, national executive director of
the Directors Guild of America. “This is not about
an artist getting upset because someone dares to
tamper with their masterpiece. This is fundamentally
about artistic and creative rights and whether
someone has the right to take an artist’s
work, change it and then sell it.”
Here’s the entire text of the article in case the link goes bad:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/movies/19CLEA.html
September 19, 2002
Hollywood Balks at High-Tech Sanitizers
Photofest
New technology can clean up popular films like “Titanic.”
By RICK LYMAN
OS ANGELES, Sept. 18
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