The thing is - you gotta consider what the law is, not what you want it to be.
Movies are not released under the GPL - as much as perhaps we want them to be. Thus, the DGA memebers retain the copyright to their movies, and are well within their rights to limit changed works. By altering these movies, even at customers requests, Clean Flicks are infringing on the DGAs rights.
In addition, I doubt Clean Flicks is doin this for free. So they are getting a fee from a licensed product that they don't have a license for. Not good, IMHO.
Now before I get flamed, understand that I am for customer rights - but right now the laws don't support Clean Flicks (IMHO - IANAL).
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The thing is - you gotta consider what the law is, not what you want it to be. Movies are not released under the GPL - as much as perhaps we want them to be. Thus, the DGA memebers retain the copyright to their movies, and are well within their rights to limit changed works. By altering these movies, even at customers requests, Clean Flicks are infringing on the DGAs rights. In addition, I doubt Clean Flicks is doin this for free. So they are getting a fee from a licensed product that they don't have a license for. Not good, IMHO. Now before I get flamed, understand that I am for customer rights - but right now the laws don't support Clean Flicks (IMHO - IANAL).