Valenti jack

Jack Joseph Valenti , born the September 5th 1921 with Houston (Texas), deceased the April 26th 2007 with Washington), was to advise with the White House time of Lyndon Johnson and the credit chairs off Motion Picture Association America (MPAA), of 1966 to 2004.

For its working life, he was generally regarded as one of the lobby most influential ists pro Copyright in the world. Its wages in 2004 were estimated at 1,35 million dollars, which made of him the seventh chief of trade group of Washington more paid, according to the National Newspaper .

In 1968, Jack Valenti created the marking system MPAA.

During the end of the Années 1970 and the beginning of the Années 1980, Jack Valenti became known for its attacks coloured against the video tape recorder Sony Betamax VCR, that MPAA feared to see devastating the industry of film. In 1982, he says at the time of a congress: " I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and to the American public what the Étrangleur of Boston is with the woman alone at elle." In spite of this prediction, the market of the video in residence created by the video tape recorder finally became the pillar of the incomes of the film studios during the Eighties and Nineties, until DVD replaces it.

Its career was devoted by a star on Hollywood Boulevard to Los Angeles and in 2004 by the French Légion of honor, in particular aiming at rewarding its combat against the hacking. It supported the rise of the Festival of the American cinema of Deauville at the end of the Années 1970.

In August 2004, Valenti, then 82 years old, took its retirement. It was replaced by daN Glickman.

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