Valenti gives Ourmedia a big thumbs-up

The other day I spotted Jack Valenti, who headed the MPAA for nearly 39 years before stepping down last year, at a lunch table at the Aspen Institute. So I introduced myself and we had a nice chat for a half hour. I devote half of Chapter 2 in Darknet to Valenti and the MPAA. His son, John, has been one of the biggest cheerleaders of the book and its central message: that the entertainment industries need to embrace their digital future by adopting new business models. The senior Valenti had nice things to say about the book as well.

So I whipped out my cell phone and Jack agreed to sit for a video interview. In this 90-second clip, he talks about grassroots creativity seen on video sharing sites like Ourmedia. (Ourmedia page | watch video)