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Quotes from Testimony to the US House of Representatives — Jack Valenti

1921–2007 United States

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

Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)

I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.

Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)

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.

Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)

We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape.

Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jack Valenti (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.