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Fighting The Phantom Menace: The Motion Picture Industry's Struggle To Protect Itself Against Digital Piracy, S. E. Oross
Fighting The Phantom Menace: The Motion Picture Industry's Struggle To Protect Itself Against Digital Piracy, S. E. Oross
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Digital technology, combined with the influence of the Internet, represents an increasingly dangerous threat to the protection of copyrights in the global marketplace. Industries like Hollywood with business models based primarily on selling and/or licensing intellectual property have much to lose if that protection falters.
Jack Valenti, the president of the MPAA, knows this all too well. In recent testimony before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection of the Commerce Committee, he described how the growing availability of certain digital technology could turn online piracy into the bane of the motion picture industry. Noting that Internet pirates …