The Copyright Saga Over Sanitizing Movies

From USA Today: "The saga over sanitizing movies":

Film editors were back in the cutting room just a few months after a federal appeals judge ruled last year that they could no longer edit movies to make them acceptable family fare.

Thanks to what they say is a loophole in copyright law that allows cuts for educational purposes, some of the companies that were ordered to turn over their inventory to Hollywood studios instead are scrubbing more movies, and other firms are getting into the market.

Film editors say the education clause can be used to get around the July 2006 ruling by Judge Richard P. Matsch that sanitizing movies on DVD or VHS tape violates federal copyright laws. The ruling was thought to have marked the end of a three-year legal battle between several film editing companies and 16 Hollywood directors started by a Colorado CleanFlicks store...