Family Home Movie Act of 2005
This section is an exemption of liability allowing the creation of technology that can edit a DVD movie on the fly and create a censored version of that movie. This provision arose out of a lawsuit between ClearPlay, a Salt Lake City-based company that markets DVD-sanitizing technology, and a number of Hollywood studios and directors. The ClearPlay technology allows a home consumer to screen out up to 14 different categories of objectionable content, such as drug use, sexual situations, or foul language.
The act does not permit one to create a new hardcopy of a movie in a completely "sanitized" format, nor does it permit the technology to replace or insert new video or audio to replace the offending content. Thus, a company cannot create and market a censored DVD copy of Goodfellas, but it can develop a DVD player or VOD player which can be programmed to skip past the objectional parts and/or blank out the objectional video or audio contained in a scene.
The act is codified in 17 U.S.C. 110(11)
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