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

—  Jack Valenti

He later paraphrased this statement in a pamplet: "If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!" (28 February 2002) (PDF document) http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/022802valenti.pdf
Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)

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