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Jack Valenti Biography

Jack Joseph Valenti (September 5, 1921 – April 26, 2007) was 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.

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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Crime, Decay, Down, Moral, Movie, Ought

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.

Attract, Capital, Chinese, Cinema, Demand, Infrastructure

There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.

Belong, Fair, Fairs, Not Fair, Use

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.

Adults, Call, Care, Father, Movie, Stigma

In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

Daggers, Deep, Personal, Political, Struggle

If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.

Backup, Buy, Dvd, Dvds, Want

If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!

Ifs, Protect

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

Confidently, Johnson, Lyndon, Night, President, Sleep

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.

Morning, Night, President, Sleep, Thinks

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

Boston, Film, Home, Vcr, Woman

No one today knows what is indecent.

Indecent, Knows, Today

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing. . . are parents.

America, Groups, Parent, Parents, Scrutinize

Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

Dna, Hollywood, Same, Spring

If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

Ifs, Nothing, Protected

What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.

Fairs, Law, Nothing, Use

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.

Marketplace, Television, Think, Thinking, Unfair, Wrong

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.

Found, Home, Kids, School, Stiffs, Tell