Jack Valenti

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• "I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president."

  Year: 1965

• "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 House of Representatives, 1982)

• "I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that." (Entertainment Weekly, 18/04/2003)

  Context: (Discussing the plausibility of anti-piracy advertisements featuring wealthy Hollywood figures)

• "In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless."

  2002 interview with Harvard Political Review's Derek Slater

• "If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one."

  Date: November 2003

Attributed

• [Copyright should last] "forever less one day"

  Attributed by: Congresswoman Mary Bono

• "Public domain works are orphans. No one will invest in their preservation, no one will make them available without IPRs"

  Attributed by: Pamela Samuelson