From the mouth of Jack(ass)
Posted on August 4, 2004
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LessigBlog has a great round-up of some of Jack Valenti’s more um… memorable… statements from his career in “Exit Jack”. Side-splittingly good fun on a wet Wednesday morning from the master of inane hyperbole:
“A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film’s quality?”
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“Nothing of value is free. It is very easy … to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else’s property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.”
Oh Jack, we’re gonna miss you.