Show A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday September 29 2002 Utah D BEST AVAILABLE COPY I I Albertsons pulls ‘cleainiecfl’ SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Albertsons Food and Drug stores in Utah pulled edited movies from their shelves after Hollywood's top movie directors filed a lawsuit against businesses that rent or sell videos scrubbed of sex violence and swearing d The Boise the chain country's cery Idaho-base- negotiating Legacy payments SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State road officials facing at least another year of Legacy Highway delays are negotiating with contractors to see how long builders should stay on the job Choices range from continuing to pay daily suspension costs to contractor Fluor Ames Kraemer — now at about $40000 each waking day — or abandoning the contract advertising Also under debate is whether the editing is a form of copyright infringement with directors aiguing that editing out “objectionable” content from their movies drastically alters their work grosecond- videotapes Monday after the Directors Guild of America and 16 directors including Stpven Spielberg and Robert Bedford filed an injunction against businesses like Clean-FlicTrilogy Studios and d Video II the video distributor that provided Ajbertsons with the edited mbyies ''As a retailer serving the entire community we feel we have to remain neutral as this dispute goes forward" Albertsons Inc spokeswoman Jeannette Duwe said Friday “So we made the decision to take these off the shelf” That included edited ver- sions of such popular movies “We as Mel Gibson's Were Soldiers" and Eddie ks AP Photo CleanRicka Chief Executive Officer Ray Lines left and President John Dixon pose with some of their edited versions of movies at the company's headquarters on Thursday in Pleasant Grove Albertsons Food and Drug stores pulled edited movies from their shelves after Hollywood's top movie directors filed a lawsuit against businesses that rent or sell videos scrubbed of sex violence and swearing Sandy-base- edited movies last summer as a pilot project that ended in August At that time store officials decided to continue renting them out in Utah Albertsons Duwe said the movies will remain off the shelves pend' ing the lawsuit’s outcome In August CleanFlicks of Colorado a franchise of Pleasant Grove Utah-base- d CleanFlicks filed a lawsuit in US District Court in Denver asking the court to rule that ' ed Murphy’s UDOT that renting or selling edited videos misleads customers who believe they are watching a “Martin Scorsese Film” when in fact it was edited without the director's approval The directors also allege that is a form of false removed the -largest films ed “Showtime” All but one of Utah's 46 Albertsons stores rented the edited videos Albertsons started renting what they do — rent and sell edited movies — is legal On Sept 20 the Directors Guild filed a countersuit against CleanFlicks of Colorado as well as other companies that specialize in editing ' videos for “family viewing” or make software that edits DVD movies At issue is whether the practice of editing movies is a violation of copy- right infringement or a trade- mark violation The Directors Guild argues Directors Guild represents- fives declined to comment Friday on Albertsons move but the guild’s president director Martha Coolidge said earlier in a statement “It is wrong to cut scenes from a film — just as it is to rip pages from a book — simply because we don’t like the way soiriething was portrayed or said then resell it with the original title and creator’s name still on it” The president of Video II which supplies all the videos for Albertsons in 17 states and edits for the Utah stores said the decision might have a minor impact on his business “We had thousands of customers in Utah renting edited altogether No matter what is decided officials say the contractor will continue building highway bridges at Burke Lane and Shepard Lane both in Farmington “We’re exploring both of those extremes add everything in between” John Njord Utah Department of Transportation executive director said Friday Lawmakers impropriated $17 million earlier this year to keep Flour Ames Kraemer and its assembled trucks earth movers and a skeleton crew on the job through Sept 30 When that time runs out Monday UDOT will have spent $163 million of that non-Lega- cy - several days if not a few weeks longer “We’ll make a decision before we hit $17 million” Njoid said The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Sort 16 extended an injunction that had stopped Legacy Highway construction overturning the federal gov-emment’s approval of the project court The Drava-base- d found that the Army Corps of Engineers failed to adequately consider the harm the segment of the highway known as the Legacy Parkway would have qn wildlife when it issued a permit for the highway construction which would have required paving over Great Salt Lake 1 14-mi- le wet-lan- ds The court also found a failure to consider mass transit failure to seriously consider alternative routes and failure to consider a narrower medi: an the ruling said The state now must conduct additional studies on alterna- tive routes and on how a variety of transportation solutions including commuter rail should be prioritized Utah retailers boosting coffee growing industry SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With an oversupply of beans and collapsing prices threatening to ruin coffee growers : worldwide some Utah coffee roasters and retailers are doing their part to boost the industry by paying sometimes double the market price for beans But they will be die first to say their motives are not entirely altruistic “What we’re looking for is the highest quality coffee on a a pouhL International relief agency Oxfam reported this month that coffee prices are at their lowest in 100 years leaving 25 million farmers in economic crisis The agency says corpora-tion- s such as Procter & Gamble Co Kraft Foods Inc and Sara Lee Corp have profited from the crisis The companies say they can't be held responsible for an oversupply lopg-fcn- n basiiXfiid Steyffiffi'and paying artificially high of Salt-Brewster prices would encourage overproduction Brewster said he and other twice the price of specialty coffee roasters differ from the big companies we’re getting a better prod-'ne- t because they are making their Coffee pnqes on New buying decisions based on York’s Coffee Sugar and quality not quantity Their actions affect the entire industCocoa Exchange — which benchmark for the a ryprovides coffee industry — have hov“When other companies hammer juices lower in the ered between 40 cents and 60 cents a pound for the past long term people are going to switch out crops and produce Tire average year was 49 cents In 1997 coffee something else more profbeans reached a high of $313 itable” Brewster said co-own-er 32-we- ek Unbelievable Family Bargain! 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