A Guide Through the Legal Jungle Trivia Question
Many parents want to watch movies at home with their
children – but without the profanity, nudity, and other potentially objectionable
material. Imagine a Basic Instinct in
which Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone just hold hands. A July 2006 federal
court ruling shut down the companies that distribute sanitized versions of
popular movies finding those companies guilty of copyright infringement. Unaffected by the ruling are companies that
offer software that bleeps out profanity and obscures nudity while the original
dvd plays on a computer or specialized dvd player. Do you know which one of the following four answers explains why these software-based
filtering companies are still in business?
- Federal law specifically protects the software-based filtering business model.
- The software-based filtering companies have entered licensing agreements with Hollywood studios.
- Most of the software-based companies are foreign-based so a US court decision does not affect them.
- The software-based filtering companies work on movies that are in the public domain.