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For Immediate Release
July 20, 2000
Motion Picture and Music Industries File Suit Against Scour.com;
Suit Says Company Profits From The Distribution of Stolen Movies and CDs
The News:
- Today in New York, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), on behalf of their member companies, filed suit against Scour.com, contending the company is built around the large-scale theft of copyrighted material and trafficking of stolen works.
- The suit was filed in order to stop the organized mass duplication and distribution of copyrighted materials by Internet users and the resulting loss of revenue and creative control for the artists involved.
- The motion picture and recording industries are committed to using and promoting new technologies as long as it is done in a legal and ethical manner.
Quotes:
From Jack Valenti, President and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America
- "This is about stealing, plain and simple. Creative works are valuable property and taking them without permission is stealing, whether you download movies illegally or shoplift them from a store. Technology may make stealing easy. But it doesn’t make it right."
From Hilary Rosen, President and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America
- "The technologies in question can be used perfectly legally – with the permission of the artists. Many web sites, artists, recording and motion picture companies are already doing this."
From Jack Valenti
- "The artists it hurts the most are the ones the public sees the least – the artists who depend on residuals and the technical people who work behind the scenes."
You can access a digital replay of the announcement by dialing 888-266-2081 – passcode 4421626. The replay will be available from 4 p.m., July 20th until 11:59 p.m., July 21st.
Detailed communications materials (including a legal summary and Q&A) can be found at www.riaa.com and www.mpaa.org.
For more information please contact: Rich Taylor 202-293-1966 x138 (MPAA) or Amy Weiss 202-857-9629 (RIAA)
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