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Chris Dodd Says MPAA Is On The Wrong Track; We Agree
techdirt.com 1 week, 1 day agoOver at the Cannes Film Festival, MPAA boss Chris Dodd apparently told Variety that the MPAA is "on the wrong track" when it calls infringement "theft." "We're in a transformative period with an explosion of technology that's going to need content... We're going to have to be more subtle and consumer-oriented We're on the wrong track if we describe this as thievery." Now, I thought that was kind of interesting, because it appears that the folks who work for Dodd haven't received the memo. The MPAA website i
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Chris Dodd Rewrites Hollywood's History To Pretend That It Came About Because Of IP Laws
techdirt.com 3 weeks, 5 days agoAh, Chris Dodd. Can you open your mouth without saying something ridiculously misleading? Sometimes, it doesn't seem possible. The latest is that he's claiming that strong IP laws were the reason Hollywood was created : The truth is that neither the content nor the technology industries could survive without strong protections for intellectual property. Many of you are familiar with how the name Hollywood became synonymous with the birth of the American film industry. It was in Jacob Stern’s horse barn, at
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