“I wasn't opposed to the VCR. The MPAA tried to establish by law that the VCR was infringing on copyright.”

— Jack Valenti

Interview in Harvard Political Review (2002)
Context: I wasn't opposed to the VCR. The MPAA tried to establish by law that the VCR was infringing on copyright. Then we would go to the Congress and get a copyright royalty fee put on all blank videocassettes and that would go back to the creators.

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President of the MPAA 1921–2007

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