Clean Flicks sues Hollywood directors
Clean Flicks, a Colorado/Idaho video chain that rents movies with the sex, violence and swearing edited out, has filed a preemptive lawsuit against Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, Robert Altman, Steven Soderbergh, Martin Scorsese and other Hollywood directors to defend its practices. The Directors Guild of America recently announced plans to sue Clean Flicks and other companies involved in re-editing Hollywood films without authorization, but hasn't actually filed the suit yet. Clean Flicks insists it has a First Amendment right to excise foul language, sexual content and violence from videos destined for private use. . . . UPDATE: More on the Clean Flicks suit and the threatened DGA suit from Wired.
