THE MEAN SEASON.(Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and violence in the mass media are two likely topics of election year politics)(Brief Article)

Video Business, August, 2000 by Sweeting, Paul

With the FTC's report on Hollywood marketing practices due to hit right before Election Day, the entertainment industry could be in for a mean fall. Now that the Republican and Democratic conventions are no longer pre-empting primetime, the entertainment industries have two major issues at stake in the presidential election.

One is the quadrennial temptation for national politicians to paint movies, music, videogames and other entertainment products as the root of all depravity in our culture, a threat newly heightened by the Democrats' nomination of noted Hollywood critic Joseph Lieberman for vice president. The other is the likely renewal of political combat next year over digital copyright enforcement. In an odd reversal of form, this...

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