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Originally Posted by Yakk
Ethically, they bought the tape. They should be allowed to edit it, and do anything with the edit that they could do with the original, so long as they do not try to misrepresent their edited work as the original.
Copyright rights should be narrow, only those that optimally incite creativity. Copyright rights that do not optimally incite creativity have no ethical leg to stand on.
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I disagree. I think copyright laws should be quite strict, and should be about protecting intellectual property rights so that third parties don't unfairly profit from work they didn't create.
I also think strict intellecutal property rights encourage creativity rather than discourage it. If you can't sample someone elses recording, you have to write your own original music. More crativity. If you can't use someone else's characters, creations, stories, or images, you have to create your own. More creativity. Putting a new frame, figuratively speaking, on someone else's work is, IMHO, less creative than coming up with your own.
One brief example. The best Superman stories of the 90's were written by Alan Moore during his run in Supreme. Superman isn't actually in the stories, just a character who shared some of his basic attributes. This freed Moore and the creators of the restrictions placed on what you can do with Superman in a story and still have it be Superman. By having their own character, they were free to take the stories in whatever direction they chose.
Editing out the parts you find offensive in a work of art isn't creativity, it's simply censorship.
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Originally Posted by Redlemon
I subscribe to Time Magazine. I read it first, then hand it off to my wife. My wife really doesn't like to see realistic images of violence and death. So, when there's pictures of bloody bodies, I tape over the pictures before I hand it to her. I see Cleanflicks as the same kind of service.
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Well, if you wanted to edit out the naughty bits of a movie you had bought for your wife, that would be the same thing. If you charged strangers for the same service, you would be profiting from someone else's work without their consent, which I believe to be unethical, and which may or may not be illegal.
Gilda