Motion Picture Association of America

...administration's efforts toward negotiating an intellectual property agreement with more than a dozen countries. Dan Glickman, the MPAA's chairman, informs lawmakers that millions of film-related jobs are in peril because of internet...

In this article: Public Knowledge, Hollywood, European Union, United States, Wired.com, and Recording Industry Association of America

...brains. The people who write these laws also happen to coincide with the people who take fist fulls of cash from the RIAA and MPAA. And don't think that this can't happen here- they're working hard on it as we speak. Posted by...

In this article: Britain, RIAA, and MPAA

...in the negotiations include the United States, Canada, Japan and South Korea, along with European Union members. In its letter, the MPAA said that new global rules are needed to protect films from Internet piracy. As more people...

In this article: Hollywood, United States, House Committee on Ways and Means, House Commerce Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senate Finance Committee

...but last week was forced to shut it down after a single copyright infringing download saw the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) threatening legal action. Unlike proposed copyright laws soon to come into force in New Zealand, US...

In this article: Coshocton, Ohio, US, Democracy, Coshocton County, Finland, and New Zealand

...registered to lobby. But such well-known lobbying groups as the National Mining Association, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the National Community Pharmacists Association were among more than 800 PACs that failed to...

In this article: FEC and Headaches

...guard. So, what does this slippery slope lead to? Well, people with little understanding of the MPAA and RIAA will certainly mistake them for government organisations, which is a dangerous outcome. Take the story of Coshocton, OH, a...

In this article: MPAA, RIAA, Osnews, Culprit, David Adams, US, and Coshocton, OH

Friday, 13 November 2009 A SMALL TOWN in the former British colony of Virginia is paying the price of not standing up to the MPAA. Coshocton, which is in Ohio and does not have a great tradition of standing up to authority, decided that...

In this article: MPAA, RIAA, David Cameron, Apple pie, IP Address, Peer-to-peer, Virginia, Ohio, and United Kingdom

...the Motion Picture Association of America to shut down the town's municipal Wi-Fi network. This is by no means the first time the MPAA has stepped on the little guy in their crusade to eradicate piracy, but it is a particularly...

In this article: Coshocton, Ohio, DVD, and Finland

Still use component connections with your cable box? Listen up: the MPAA has again asked the FCC to let studios disable analog connections during certain on-demand movies. The FCC currently bans this, and here's why that's a good thing.

In this article: MPAA, DVD, FCC, Customer base, Revenue, BoingBoing, PC Magazine, Observe and Report, Starz Media, and Warner Brothers

...for far too long, but fortunately, it is no longer sitting idly by as theft ravages its creative industry," the MPAA wrote. The MPAA's counterpart, the Recording Industry Association of America, is also pushing U.S.-based ISPs for a...

In this article: Federal Communications Commission, South Korea, Wired.com, Recording Industry Association of America, Great Britain, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C