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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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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In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.
thinking television unfair
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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I am proud that the entertainment industry and the citizens of Los Angeles turned out in full force to support a long overdue national memorial to Dr. King.
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The digital world, the world of virtual reality ... is going to be part of the embrace of this great, new cooperative venture.
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You cannot win against an insurgency that springs from the population. There's never been an insurgency that doesn't prevail against a mighty power.
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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.