Jack Valenti: Use

Jack Valenti was President of the MPAA. Explore interesting quotes on use.
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“My own home, we do it in our on home. I know about that. Anybody that has a VCR, talk to them, and I ask you to use your own commonsense… If you had the power to sit on a playback of a recording and you could wipe out the commercials or not wipe out the commercials, what would you do? … We all do it.
But when you do it, you strip away the reason for free television. … As far as I am concerned, I am going to continue taping because the plaintiffs have said they aren't going to do anything to me. I am not committing any crime. They know that.”

Jack Valenti

Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)

“Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.”

Jack Valenti

Interview in Harvard Political Review (2002)

“The Ninth Circuit Court decision was lucid, unambiguous, and consistent. The logic was clear and it said when you use copyrighted material on a video cassette recorder, it is an infringement of copyright.”

Jack Valenti

Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)

“Fair use is not in the law.”

Jack Valenti

Engadget interview (2004)

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

Jack Valenti

In response to the question "Do consumers have a fair use right to remix a few seconds of a Hollywood movie into a home movie project?"
Engadget interview (2004)

“Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.”

Jack Valenti

Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)

“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 does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?”

Jack Valenti

A Plea For Keeping Alive the U.S. Film Industry’s Competitive Energy (1995)