Exemption From WWF Blurring/editing
The sets are unique as they are, for the most part, free from the well documented legal restraints imposed by the federal lawsuits initiated by the World Wildlife Fund in the year 2002 that prohibit the referencing and use of the scratch logo and initials "WWF", with only the DVD covers and DVD menu screens of the "Tagged Classics" displaying the initials "WWE". They serve as a much more faithful representation of archived WWF material than do the more recent WWE WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and Survivor Series anthologies.
They also contain no WWE watermark/DOG like new WWE Home Video releases do. They do however, contain the watermark/DOG for that time frame. For instance, there is no watermark for anything up to 1994, and the block logo is used, then the New Generation logo from 1995 onwards, and finally the scratch logo for all of the Attitude era discs.
Some theme music is dubbed over on new WWE Home Video releases, but not on these Tagged Classics sets. For instance, on the WWE WrestleMania Anthology - Demolition's theme music is dubbed over with generic WWE-produced theme music. This is done to save on paying certain royalties to certain artists and music production companies. These sets have all of the original music included unless they were dubbed over in the original VHS/DVD releases, for example, Unforgiven 1999's main event video package featured music by Fear Factory and System of a Down, but it was dubbed over on the VHS release and thus is dubbed over on the Tagged Classics release.
It is not known exactly why these discs are exempt from blurring and editing, but many theories have arose. The first is that they are direct re-releases from the past. The second is that they are only available in the UK and Europe, therefore are exempt from legal restraints because of this. The third reason is that Silver Vision is a third party licensee of WWE DVDs in the UK, and technically this is not WWE releasing these discs. Also, the court order required the company to remove both auditory and visual references to "WWF" in its library of video footage outside of the United Kingdom. So Silvervision are legally allowed to release these events with the old Scratch WWF logo intact and references to WWF are allowed to remain also.
WWE Tagged Classic In Your House 7 & 8 has extra footage which the VHS release did not have in the U.K. The Free For All event can be seen on the In Your House 7 DVD Tagged Classic release and features the match between the 123 Kid and The Wildman Marc Mero.
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