The world honors directors like Steven Spielberg, Mel Gibson and Martin Scorsese, but at the end of the day, they may be money-grubbing hypocrites, not the artists they claim to be.

They joined other members of the Director’s Guild of America (DGA) in suing three small video rental companies that edited their films who to make them decent enough for families to watch together.

The rental companies, CleanFlicks, CleanFilms, and Play It Clean Video lost their court battle to the DGA when the Federal Court in Colorado ruled that cutting profanity and graphic scenes of nudity and violence from DVDs and then redistributing the sanitized versions violated U.S. copyrights laws.

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By John W. Whitehead

You might go to church And sit down in a pew. Those humans who ain’t human could be sitting next to you.”—John Prine

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead.