Jack Valenti Quotes
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I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it.
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We count it crucial to make regular soundings to find out how the public perceives the rating program, and to measure the approval and disapproval of what we are doing... The rating system isn't perfect but, in an imperfect world, it seems each year to match the expectations of those whom it is designed to serve - parents of America.
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The Ninth Circuit Court decision was lucid, unambiguous, and consistent. The logic was clear and it said when you use copyrighted material on a video cassette recorder, it is an infringement of copyright.
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Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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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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I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
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I wasn't opposed to the VCR. The MPAA tried to establish by law that the VCR was infringing on copyright. Then we would go to the Congress and get a copyright royalty fee put on all blank videocassettes and that would go back to the creators.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.
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You've already got a DVD. It lasts forever. It never wears out. In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless.
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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If you design your own machine, you can't fuss at people, because you're one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?
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In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.
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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
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I don’t know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.
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I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.