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Disney chief says Net must protect rights

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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.

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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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