The Writers Guild of America West on Tuesday threw its support behind the Directors Guild of America after a pre-emptive legal strike was made against 16 of Hollywood's best-known directors by CleanFlicks over third-party editing of DVDs and videocassettes. CleanFlicks and attorney Robert Hunstman who has a patent pending on movie editing technology and also was listed as a plaintiff in the case both engage in third-party edits to DVDs and videocassettes. Whether the artist is a novelist, painter, sculptor, architect, journalist, photographer, dancer or works in any of the creative media, we must continue to stand for the right of freedom of expression and the importance of protecting that expression.

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