MPAA head Chris Dodd�and John Fithian, president/CEO of the National 
Association of Theatre Owners, brought their lobbying on behalf of content creators to�a packed�house at the Sundance Film Festival today. Both�admitted to the panel they were blindsided by the swift backlash their organizations faced in their effort to pass the U.S. House of Representatives’ Stop Online Piracy Act and the U.S. Senate’s version Protect IP Act. The panel’s moderator�called the MPAA and NATO to task for�the legislation’s effective defeat: “You got your butt kicked.” It follows heavyweights like�Google, Wikipedia, and thousands of�websites joining forces and protesting what they claimed was a move to suppress free speech. 
NATO’s Fithian said he had never witnessed such a reversal in momentum�considering the legislation’s passage seemed all but assured in October. “This was the most amazing turnaround of public opinion in the 25 years I’ve been a professional lobbyist. We were up there since Day One and took 25 of my [exhibitor] CEOs and met with 50 members of Congress. We asked each member of Congress if there was anything they need to make the legislation clear and nobody said anything. Google read the legislation at the same time and didn’t say a word. But in November the greatest backlash�ever occurred.” Fithian described the pushback as scare-mongering that convinced the public the legislation would shut down the internet. “For ... Read More »Hilary Duff Hilary Swank Isla Fisher Ivana Bozilovic Ivanka Trump Izabella Miko
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