April 28, 2005
Bush OKs Smut-Stripping Tech
Permitting technology that filters out "objectionable" material over rights of the copyright holder
Examples include ClearPlay and MovieMask
Links to previous posts: Here and here
Wired News: Bush OKs Smut-Stripping Tech:
President Bush on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at helping parents keep their children from seeing sex scenes, violence and foul language in movie DVDs. The bill gives legal protections to the fledgling filtering technology that helps parents automatically skip or mute sections of commercial movie DVDs.
The legislation, called the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, creates an exemption in copyright laws to make sure companies selling filtering technology won't get sued out of existence.
Critics of the bill have argued it was aimed at helping one company, Utah-based ClearPlay, whose technology is used in some DVD players. ClearPlay sells filters for hundreds of movies that can be added to such DVD players for $4.95 each month. Hollywood executives maintain that ClearPlay should pay them licensing fees for altering their creative efforts.
Posted by rshah at April 28, 2005 09:51 AM
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