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[FYI] Disney chief says Net must protect rights
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- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:58:28 +0100
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http://www.seattletimes.com/news/business/html98/disn05_20000405.html
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Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 08:27 p.m. Pacific
Disney chief says Net must protect rights
by Karen Fessler Bloomberg News
LOS ANGELES - The growth of entertainment on the Internet will stall
unless the creators of content can be sure that their intellectual
property is protected against unauthorized use, Walt Disney Co.
Chairman Michael Eisner said.
The technology that offers advances to such industries as filmmaking
and music production also jeopardizes copyrighted material by
facilitating piracy, Eisner said, calling it the "perilous irony of
the digital age."
Eisner, speaking at the Variety/Schroders Big Picture Media
Conference in New York, said Disney is pursuing a strategy to make
the Internet safe for intellectual property. Among the initiatives is
making the company's content available online at "a reasonable cost,"
Eisner said, adding that the music industry has proved that consumers
are willing to pay for legally produced product even when pirated
copies can be easily obtained.
[...]
Eisner also criticized some high-profile companies for not actively
working to prevent the illegal use of copyrighted material on the
Internet. He cited Cisco Systems, the No. 1 maker of Internet
equipment, as a company that has "taken a position of neutrality."
[...]
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