Clean Films is a now shuttered company that took films and edited them up by altering or removing the content of the DVD to remove offensive content. “Offensive content” in this context includes nudity, overt profanity or ‘language’ considered profane, violence, and other unwanted content.
Clean Films would buy original copies of DVDs for every one of the edited movies that they made. The company organized a co-op that allowed members to rent copies of the edited DVDs.
Unfortunately, the practice of creating clean movies, or family movies from previously R rated or PG-13 rated films was not welcomed by the director’s guild, Hollywood’s powerful union.
Editing DVDs like this eventually landed Clean Films in trouble. They were named in a lawsuit with two other companies movie editing companies named “Play It Clean Video” and “CleanFlicks” .
A United States District Court Judge ruled in favor of the studios and the directors in July 2006,. Judge Richard Matsch, in his decision, stated that ” Their objective … is to stop the infringement because of its irreparable injury to the creative artistic expression in the copyrighted movies. There is a public interest in providing such protection.”
The Utah based businesses had created a business with Christians and conservatives who were concerned about the appropriateness of movies’ content, especially for family viewing. According to the ruling, by editing profanity, violence, nudity and sex scenes from DVD movies for family viewing, they were violating copyright law. This judgment effectively shut the little company down.
CleanFilms is no longer in operation. The company’s attorney, Troy Romero, said that fighting the legal battle against the complainant, Motion Picture Studios, would take about five years. After an analysis of the market for clean films it was decided to shut down.
For years before being forced to shut down, Clean Films was a major player in the edited movie industry.
CleanFilms also had edited DVDs for sale and rental through its website. In the early years, the Cleanfilms DVD inventory was made up of movies edited by Family Flix. Later on in its operation, CleanFilms created its own editing techniques and created their own.
When the company was shutdown they posted a letter on their website thanking their loyal members for the support, and for allowing them to bless their homes with family friendly edited movies.
While the company is no longer providing edited movies, clean edited movies provides the an old review of their services which says that calls being a part of Cleanfilms very affordable. And, due to their model, perhaps inspired by netflix:
“I don’t spend any more money renting clean movies than I did renting movies from the movie store. I also don’t have to worry about late fees and 24 hour due dates.”
Cleanfilms.com used to work similarly to netflix. Visitors to the site would sign up to become a member, choose a rental plan depending on budgetary considerations and the number of DVDs you needed to have out at the same time — from as little as 2 to as many as 7, add DVDs to the rental queue, and receive the movie shipped through USPS mail. After watching a DVD, the viewer would return it via mail.
If you would like for movie editing companies to have the right to provide choices for family friendly movie viewing in the privacy of your own home, please sign our petition.
Clean Films
Clean Films is a now shuttered company that took films and edited them up by altering or removing the content of the DVD to remove offensive content. “Offensive content” in this context includes nudity, overt profanity or ‘language’ considered profane, violence, and other unwanted content.
Clean Films would buy original copies of DVDs for every one of the edited movies that they made. The company organized a co-op that allowed members to rent copies of the edited DVDs.
Unfortunately, the practice of creating clean movies, or family movies from previously R rated or PG-13 rated films was not welcomed by the director’s guild, Hollywood’s powerful union.
Editing DVDs like this eventually landed Clean Films in trouble. They were named in a lawsuit with two other companies movie editing companies named “Play It Clean Video” and “CleanFlicks” .
A United States District Court Judge ruled in favor of the studios and the directors in July 2006,. Judge Richard Matsch, in his decision, stated that ” Their objective … is to stop the infringement because of its irreparable injury to the creative artistic expression in the copyrighted movies. There is a public interest in providing such protection.”
The Utah based businesses had created a business with Christians and conservatives who were concerned about the appropriateness of movies’ content, especially for family viewing. According to the ruling, by editing profanity, violence, nudity and sex scenes from DVD movies for family viewing, they were violating copyright law. This judgment effectively shut the little company down.
CleanFilms is no longer in operation. The company’s attorney, Troy Romero, said that fighting the legal battle against the complainant, Motion Picture Studios, would take about five years. After an analysis of the market for clean films it was decided to shut down.
For years before being forced to shut down, Clean Films was a major player in the edited movie industry.
CleanFilms also had edited DVDs for sale and rental through its website. In the early years, the Cleanfilms DVD inventory was made up of movies edited by Family Flix. Later on in its operation, CleanFilms created its own editing techniques and created their own.
When the company was shutdown they posted a letter on their website thanking their loyal members for the support, and for allowing them to bless their homes with family friendly edited movies.
While the company is no longer providing edited movies, clean edited movies provides the an old review of their services which says that calls being a part of Cleanfilms very affordable. And, due to their model, perhaps inspired by netflix:
“I don’t spend any more money renting clean movies than I did renting movies from the movie store. I also don’t have to worry about late fees and 24 hour due dates.”
Cleanfilms.com used to work similarly to netflix. Visitors to the site would sign up to become a member, choose a rental plan depending on budgetary considerations and the number of DVDs you needed to have out at the same time — from as little as 2 to as many as 7, add DVDs to the rental queue, and receive the movie shipped through USPS mail. After watching a DVD, the viewer would return it via mail.
If you would like for movie editing companies to have the right to provide choices for family friendly movie viewing in the privacy of your own home, please sign our petition.