3 years for digital media, i wonder how many 'examples' are going to be made with this one. Will a portion of the public outcry though? It's amazing that the numbers involved in napster didn't sway us towards a more open system. people will still buy even if they can get it for free.

What I love about this copyright revision though is that it actively promotes and gives legal backing to "uncreative" acts. This is a first. Copyright was suppost to be about promoting arts and sciences, you can debate the cam part but making it legal to remove what you think is obscenity or not family oriented, there's nothing "creative" about that kind of decision making is purely "destructive".

So when the next "destructive" work (like http://ni9e.com 's Explicit Content Only version of the classic NWA album) gets caught under the gun, maybe this copyright revision will work in their favor, and help revive the Fair Use clause in the process.

Well TR47, they could start by taxing the hell out your connection, instead of good legislation. I agree somewhat with what your saying but there's also the notion that works like some of the stuff mentioned around here, should be legal. they don't make these kinda laws to eliminate the problem entirely, as you say that's impossible, they are trying to figure out some inbetween which keep minds looking elsewhere. The problem is we have some really restrictive rules currently on the books and new forms of creativity pushing on those boundaries, and it's people like Lessig who are attempting to figure out patterns of thought or some kind of legal reasoning to show the value of these new things.

ChainsawAsh: Your on the same train of thought i'm on, let's go with it. Let's say we were attempting to legitimatize the Phantom Edit, you could say (as some reviewers did) that the Neimoidians promoted bad racial stereotypes of asians, so modifiying their voices is something we must do to protect the young'uns. As for Jar Jar....

The problem with this of course, is that these we're not the reasons the Editor did what he did. There are 'valid' reasons, i believe in the work done to the films, but they won't seem to fly. But Lucas hasn't done anything, so maybe he's ok with it in a way. Depends on how big you get, sometimes. Curious how tfn is mentioning the edits now. Has anyone heard the commentary version tfn was talking about?

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