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MPAA Sued Over DVD Screener Ban

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-want-awards-too dept.

bigjnsa500 writes "Fourteen small movie houses are suing the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) trying to stop the ban on DVD 'screeners'. 'It will chill the financing of independent films by limiting the awards they can receive', say the plaintiffs, who include Talking Wall Pictures, Sandcastle 5 Productions and Salty Features. They feel they are being treated differently because several 'specialty' indy film shops are still allowed to send out 'numbered, encoded videocassettes' to Oscar voters. This ban was issued by MPAA President Jack Valenti initially to stop the illegal distribution of DVD screeners on the Internet."

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  1. no topic by lostindenver · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no topic

  2. Indy Film? by WatertonMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Everytime I read one of these threads and see "Indy Film" I think that Spielberg and Lucas are finally making the next Indiana Jones film. Instead it is about some company that makes films about gay cowboys eating pudding...