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Entertainment & Sports

Jul. 13, 2006

Hollywood's Final Cut Is Final Word

LOS ANGELES - Businesses can't buy movies, edit out the potentially offensive parts and resell them, a federal court has ruled.

By Peter Zuckerman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - Businesses can't buy movies, edit out the potentially offensive parts and resell them, a federal court has ruled.
      Several studios, the Directors Guild of America and 16 directors, including Steven Spielberg and Robert Redford, have been fighting four companies that take out nudity, sex, profanity, violence and ot...

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