A Clean Compromise

CleanFlicks and companies like it have stepped in to fill a void the movie industry has steadfastly refused to acknowledge (“Who Can Edit a Movie? Directors Guild Files Suit,” by Bob Baker, Sept. 21). A very viable market exists of families who love movies but cannot in good conscience bring those movies into their homes without some sort of sanitizing.

It’s precisely because the movie industry hasn’t acknowledged the needs of this market that CleanFlicks has become so successful.

Even though the DGA is rightly concerned about control of copyrighted material, Martha Coolidge should be promoting a more proactive approach. Her complaint that CleanFlicks profits “by the commerce of these grossly altered products” would be assuaged if they formed a partnership. Why not provide CleanFlicks with authorized “family-friendly” versions for distribution?

This way everyone wins: Families get appropriate movies, directors retain copyright control and revenue and CleanFlicks becomes a distributor in the market it has already been serving.

RENEE DALLAS

Orange