Rooting for Omega are electronics manufacturers, publishers and the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Chris Dodd, who now heads the Motion Picture Association of America, and Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt.
But even this is under attack and not just from free-marketeers like Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association of America.
Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.
It was just a year ago that the public revolted against the RIAA and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, fired off an angry letter to Stanford University President John Hennessy in December.
As with the rating committee of the Motion Picture Association of America, what they regarded as unsuitable for the young was information about sex.
In 1968, the Motion Picture Association of America adopted its film-rating system, ranging from "G" for "general" audiences to "X" for adult patrons only.
At 5:00 PM, the Vice President will host a reception for the Motion Picture Association of America and Administration officials at the Naval Observatory.
Before meeting with Vice President Joe Biden to discuss violence in films and video games, Motion Picture Association of America chairman and former Sen.
Dan Glickman, a former congressman and onetime head of the Motion Picture Association of America, rejects suggestions of links between films and real-life violence.
"Right now the studios have enough movies to take them through next February or March, " said Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association of America.
Other notable supporters of the project include former US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Jack Valenti, former president of the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Movies shown in 3-D accounted for 11% of the box office in 2009 up from 2% in 2008, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
The Motion Picture Association of America is already working on its own economic study of the harmful effects of file sharing, to be completed this autumn.
Neither was the Motion Picture Association of America, which argued in a brief supporting Wiley that a ruling against the publisher could undermine the film and recording industries.
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The Motion Picture Association of America has resisted calls to let users get at their data unless action is taken to police any pirated material in the cache.
The Motion Picture Association of America also sided with Autodesk.
But only a change in popular culture can seriously affect attitudes, and, at the moment, that change is being impeded by an improbable enemy the Motion Picture Association of America.
According to the Motion Picture Association of America, 606 new films were released last year, although many were destined for just a handful of cinemas in New York and Los Angeles.
The Motion Picture Association of America estimates some 29 million people have downloaded or watched unauthorized movies or TV shows online, mostly using technology such as BitTorrent, a popular peer-to-peer protocol.
The American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have filed briefs supporting Wiley.
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In 2000, member studios of the Motion Picture Association of America successfully sued the hacker magazine 2600 for offering readers access to DeCSS, a piece of software used to break DVD encryption.
For the users, the site will remain largely the same, as isoHunt has been filtering keywords from a list provided by the Motion Picture Association of America since the initial injunction in 2010.
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As part of a pact between theaters and the Motion Picture Association of America, most trailers may not exceed two and a half minutes, with one exception a year made for each studio.
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Speaking at a panel discussion at the festival Monday morning, Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Chris Dodd blamed the movie industry's problems in part on technology companies' ability to lobby the public directly.
Despite opposition from the Motion Picture Association of America and other movie groups, Media Derivatives counters that Trend Exchange will help smaller studios attract investor dollars by providing a way to offset the risk.
Ex-Senator Chris Dodd, who was instrumental in creating the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac disasters, is now the chief lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America, the key backer of these flawed proposals.
The American film industry is extremely reluctant to discuss the China concessions Hollywood is making, and the industry's main lobbying group, the Motion Picture Association of America, tries to portray the practice in the best possible light.
"Last year, though, people weren't talking about 'Bully, '" the festival's chief creative officer, Geoffrey Gilmore, said of the documentary, which has been the focus of a recent ratings battle between the Weinstein Company and the Motion Picture Association of America.
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