Jack Valenti
Jack Joseph Valenti was an American political advisor and lobbyist who served as a Special Assistant to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was also the 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 was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world.
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Background
- Born in
- Houston
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityHarvard Business SchoolUniversity of HoustonUniversity of Houston C.T. Bauer College of BusinessSam Houston Math, Science, and Technology Center
- Awards
- 🏆 Distinguished Flying Cross🏆 Knight of the Legion of Honour🏆 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Trending topics shown first"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 perfe…"
"A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How do…"
"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."
"There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use."
"We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion…"
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1921
Born
Birth2007
Died
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