ATTAWAY LEFT THE
COPYRIGHT PROTECTION INDUSTRY
The Motion
Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced the retirement of Fritz
Attaway, one of the known lawyers who had fought for copyright within the
international legal and policy trenches for almost four decades.
Attaway
pioneered copyright protection at MPAA for almost 36 years. He is one of the
contributors who had given impressive actions to institute the policies
regarding the copyright protection in the period when the advent of the
Internet and other electronic communication devices occurred. The Internet era
has been a challenging moment for copyright protection, because this is the
time when unauthorized use of materials protected by copyrighted has been
widespread, making it hard to defeat. Attaway managed to do his part in winning
over the battle of copyright holders and infringers. He also
stood against those people who tried to prevent strong copyright regulations.
MPAA
Chairman and CEO, Mr. Chris Dodd stated that there are only a few who had
contributed more than Attaway regarding the establishment the legal landscape
and regulations that triggered the flourishing of the motion picture industry.
Attaway was
hired in 1976 by Jack Valenti. He was positioned in MPAA to be the sole
attorney in their Washington office. For the next 28 years, Attaway worked so
closely with Valenti. He then advanced to the Senior Vice President position
and was the Washington General Counsel as well. Later on, he was promoted to be
the Executive Vice President. He was dubbed by Valenti as the “master of
copyright law’ for his noble contributions to such field, and also because of
his book called, This Time, This Place. In 2007 at Valenti’s funeral, Attaway
served as a pallbearer.
MPAA praised
Attaway for his major contributions in the improvement of the provisions of the
Copyright Act. In 1976, he made the final negotiations in relation to the
revision of the act which was concluded in the same year. Attaway also made his
share significantly in the US/Canada Free Trade Agreement in 1987, the Uruguay
Round Agreement in 1994, the copy protection procedures tending to launch the
marketing of DVDs in 1997, and the enactment of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act in 1998. He is also one of the pioneers who led the accession of
the United States in various international treaties regarding copyright protection, including the Berne Copyright Convention and the WIPO
Internet Treaties.
Attaway is
one of the delegates of the United States to Beijing Treaty negotiations.
Attaway
expressed his satisfaction with regards to working for the MPAA for almost 4
decades. “Few people spend over 36 years at one organization, and even fewer
can say that they look back on that time with immense satisfaction and no
regrets,” Attaway said. “I had the incredible privilege of being mentored by
one of hardest working, most erudite and kindest individuals one could ever
meet, one who made MPAA the gold standard of Washington trade associations, and
I represented a high profile industry undergoing monumental change. For a farm
boy from Idaho, it has been a great ride.”
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