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Now, because you're very important now because Hollywood money has become I guess the most
important money in the campaign now that a lot of Wall Street has turned against the
President, and you're right in the middle between Silicon Valley that wants Internet
freedom and Hollywood that wants its intellectual properties somehow rewarded, so do you foresee
yourself playing any role in that fight? >>Jeffrey Katzenberg: Well, we've had --
>>Maureen Orth: I mean, the Valley is winning obviously.
>>Jeffrey Katzenberg: It's not. It's not a winning or losing.
Hollywood and through the MPAA, drafted a ridiculous bill that had no business being
-- SOPA. SOPA's dead. And yet what -- the goals in terms of what
Hollywood was trying to accomplish, although as I said, in a badly flawed bill that did
not deserve to even get as far as it did, and the fact is I'm happy to say this, for
our hosts here today, you know, once the dust settled off of the skirmish of SOPA, you know,
they've been incredibly responsive, understand the protection of intellectual property. And
the protection of intellectual property and a free and open Internet are not mutually
exclusive
to one another.