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'''Clean Films''' was a mormon company in the United States founded by Chad Fullmer that edited the content of [[DVD]]s to remove profanity, nudity, violence, crude language, and other unwanted content. They purchased original copies of DVDs for every edited one they produced. They created an online "co-operative rental club" so that others could joint-own the original copies of the DVDs the co-operative purchased.

== Lawsuit ==

Editing videos in this way was controversial. CleanFilms (aka CleanFilms.com) was named in a lawsuit along with two other companies [[CleanFlicks]] and [[Play It Clean Video]]. In July 2006, U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch ruled in favor of the directors and the studios. In his decision the judge stated: ''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.''<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2006Jul08/0,4675,FilmSanitizers,00.html FOXNews.com - Court Rules Against Sanitizing Films]</ref><ref>[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003114894_sanitize09.html The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Judge rules against film sanitizers]</ref> Due to the court ruling CleanFilms is no longer in operation.

==See also==
* [[ClearPlay]], a similar service
* [[Re-edited film]]
* [[VidAngel]], a similar service

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080217134017/http://www.familyfirst.com/clean_films.html Family First Article on Clean Films]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081012044145/http://www.donloper.com/utah-business/cleanflicks-play-it-clean-video-and-cleanfilms-court-rules-against-three-utah-companies.html CleanFlicks, Play It Clean Video and CleanFilms - Court Rules Against Three Utah Companies]

[[Category:Defunct mass media companies of the United States]]

Clean Films - Revision history

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