Jack Valenti Quotes
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The basic mission of the rating system is a simple one: to offer to parents some advance information about movies so that parents can decide what movies they want their children to see or not to see. The entire rostrum of the rating program rests on the assumption of responsibility by parents.
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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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Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
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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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If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.
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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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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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In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.