Sunday, September 22, 2002

[Tomalak's Realm] QUOTES SJ Mercury: Valenti presents Hollywood's side of the technology story. Dan Gillmor. I made that offer after I heard from a colleague that Valenti, meeting recently with journalists in Los Angeles, had complained about what I'd been writing. So while I don't agree with much of what he said -- and I'll respond in a subsequent column -- it's only fair to give you his side of the argument. UNQUOTE [Tomalak's Realm] This is Dan Gillmor's interview of Jack Valenti to get Hollywood's side on this great debate. Hollywood wants to make their customers happy, and wants their material on the Internet, but on their terms at a fair and reasonable price, because the Internet provides new ways for people to violate copyright. Jack Valenti has been president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America www.mpaa.org since 1966. Dan Gillmor and Jack Valenti could not come to an agreement on how it is possible for Hollywood to get what they want, without denying consumers a continuing ability to do what is commonly called fair use: time shift programming to view TV programs at a time other than when they were actually broadcast; view digital programming in an analog format; peer to peer sharing of content that is typically copyrighted. 9:20:28 PM

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