Jack Valenti
Jack Valenti
Jack Joseph Valentiwas a longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and he was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 September 1921
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.
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What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.
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There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.
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If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.
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I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.
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In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.
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A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.
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Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
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Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.
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Serious efforts are underway to try to bring the domestic problems under control.
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In the last several years, piracy has been the dominant issue that has consumed my life,