http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2007/02/05/censorship/ Freedom is the right of all sentient beings Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:51:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2007/02/05/censorship/#comment-22 Drone Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:47:59 +0000 http://yama.hosting.k-sit.com/blog/2007/02/05/censorship/#comment-22 It isn't censorship unless it is the government and is preemptive. The directors, producers, studio backers, and distributors can order all kinds of changes and recuts to a film based on their contract arrangements, and that does not constitute censordhip. It's their product. On the other hand, an actor hired to do a scene has a contract with the producers, and may be owed a credit in the finished product even if the scene they filmed was cut by the final release (think SAG rules). It isn’t censorship unless it is the government and is preemptive. The directors, producers, studio backers, and distributors can order all kinds of changes and recuts to a film based on their contract arrangements, and that does not constitute censordhip. It’s their product. On the other hand, an actor hired to do a scene has a contract with the producers, and may be owed a credit in the finished product even if the scene they filmed was cut by the final release (think SAG rules).

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