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Next stop, Hollywood: Dan Glickman, the director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), was named the next chair of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) yesterday, ending a months-long search to replace 82-year-old Jack Valenti as the film industry’s chief lobbyist...
...want to start this column by fulfilling a promise I made last week to Jack Valenti, the outgoing president of the Motion Picture Association of America, when he came to speak to Crimson editors about copyright law and the internet. Here it goes: Downloading or copying music or movies to which you have no “fair use” claim (this is probably true of most of the music you download) is illegal. Any given offense infringes upon an exclusive right to a monopoly bestowed upon the copyright holder by Congress, and they...
...according to calculations by BigChampagne. Eventually, "if you can download a movie with sophisticated sight and sound in seconds and have it in your library, you're not going to buy that in a DVD store. Anyone with even a paltry understanding of human nature understands that," says Jack Valenti, head of the M.P.A.A...
...traced back to a screener that had been sent to Oscar voters. Since Warner Bros. gave out only VHS copies, the bootleg was not of great quality. But its existence is an embarrassment after a year of high-profile debate over the risks of screeners--a beloved industry perk. Valenti of the M.P.A.A. had pushed hard to fight piracy by banning all screeners outright. But independent studios complained the ban would penalize small movies trying to get award nominations. In December the U.S. district court overturned the ban. Last week Sony traced a pirated copy of Something's Gotta Give...
...lost his first competition 3-2 to the third guy in the nation [Penn’s Matt Valenti], and after that he recovered, but then he was hit again,” Weiss said. “He’s so good, but he might be on the shelf for the rest of the year...