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MPAA mulls plan to sue itself
Filed in archive RIAA, MPAA by Marc on January 25, 2006
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The pithy title, courtesy of SiliconValley.com, comes from the amusing story in the Los Angeles Times that the MPAA violated its own credo that "Manufacturing, selling, distributing or making copies of motion pictures without the consent of the copyright owners is illegal. Movie pirates are thieves, plain and simple. ... ALL forms of piracy are illegal and carry serious legal consequences."

Kirby Dick, director of the movie "This Film Is Not Yet Rated", charges that the MPAA illegally created a copy of his movie. The MPAA has agreed that it did make a copy, but not an illegal one.

It's all very incestuous as the movie is about the movie business.

"Scheduled to debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday night, "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" examines what Dick believes are the MPAA's stricter standards for rating explicit depictions of sex than for gruesome violence. Dick also explores whether independent films are rated more harshly than studio films, whether scenes of gay sex are restricted more than scenes of straight sex, and why the 10 members of the MPAA's ratings board operate without any public accountability."



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