Film Filter Companies Hoping Bill Will Pass

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PROVO -- A movie-filtering technology developed in Utah and now under fire in the courts could score a victory when Congress reconvenes after next month's elections.

Before this week's recess, the U.S. House of Representatives approved and sent to the Senate the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, including a section called the Family Movie Act, which would indemnify technologies that filter objectionable content out of movies during viewing without permanently altering them.

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Film Filter Companies Hoping Bill Will Pass

Salt Lake-based ClearPlay is a company that produces technology fitting that description. ClearPlay's technology embeds movie- specific filtering files into DVD players that instruct the player where to skip unwa...

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