Motion Picture Association of America
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How do movie blurbs work?...have to submit advertising materials like newspaper ads and trailers to the Motion Picture Association of America for approval. But the MPAA reviews the ads for their tone and content, not for the accuracy of their citations. When a new movie... In this article: Entertainment Weekly, Motion Picture Association of America, Peter Travers, Se7en, Lost Highway, Connecticut, Dementia, Rolling Stone, and Facebook |
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Ars Technica | 1 day ago
MPAA to FCC: critics of video blocking proposals are lying
...fears among consumers that their equipment will suddenly go dark and be unusable for any purpose." These are "deplorable claims," the MPAA told the FCC on Monday. Plus they "distort the truth." They're also "simply and irrefutably...
In this article: Federal Communications Commission, DVD, Public Knowledge, Hollywood, Slingbox, Gigi Sohn, HBO, and Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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washingtonpost.com | 3 days ago
Today in History - Nov. 24
..."Duck" Dunn (Booker T. & the MG's) is 68. Actor-comedian Billy Connolly is 67. Former White House news secretary Marlin Fitzwater is 67. Motion Picture Association of America Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman is 65. Singer Lee Michaels is 64.
In this article: Lookout Mountain, Rock, Apollo 12, Palestinian militant, World War II, British Overseas Airways Corp., and Booker T. & the MG's
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Wired: Threat Level | 6 days ago
MPAA: Copyright Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood
...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: Hollywood, European Union, Public Knowledge, United States, Wired.com, and Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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Wired: Threat Level | 6 days ago
MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood
...| 5:38 pm Posted by: protagonistic | 11/20/09 | 6:34 pm Damn right I am hostile towards the MPAA and the RIAA as well. Perhaps if they would stop wasting money trying to sue everybody and use it to actually put out a product worth...
In this article: Hollywood, Recording Industry Association of America, Public Knowledge, Planned obsolescence, DVD, Blu-Ray, and European Union
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washingtonpost.com | 7 days ago
Hollywood tells lawmakers to back U.S. efforts in copyright trade talks
...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
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OSNews | November 13, 2009
MPAA Shuts Down Municipal WiFi Due to Single Illegal Download
...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
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the INQUIRER | November 13, 2009
The MPAA runs amok
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
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Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide | November 12, 2009
MPAA Shuts Down Entire Town's Wi-Fi Over Single Illegal Download [Mpaa]
...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
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Gizmodo | November 05, 2009
MPAA Still Trying to Plug Your Analog Hole with Selectable Output Control [Mpaa]
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
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Wired Top Stories | November 04, 2009
MPAA Wants Congress to 'Encourage' 3 Strikes, Filtering
...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
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), originally the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), is a non-profit business and trade association based in the United States, which was formed to advance the business interests of movie studios.
The current Chairman and CEO of the MPAA is Dan Glickman. MPAA members include the "big six" major Hollywood studios, which are:
#The Walt Disney Company
#Sony Pictures
#Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
#20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
#Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
#Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
The MPAA administers the voluntary film rating system. MGM was an MPAA member until 2005, shortly after Sony Pictures Entertainment's failed attempt to buy that studio; it ended in a partly Sony-funded acquisition. Lions Gate also joined the film rating system, but was not in the big six. Neither is The Weinstein Company.
As part of its campaign to stop copyright infringement the MPAA is legally battling against the BitTorrent technology, the peer-to-peer file-sharing communications protocol invented by Bram Cohen. The MPAA's anti-piracy campaign has gained much publicity.
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