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The Office of the United States Trade Representative has released the 2016 Special 301 Report on the global state of intellectual property rights protection and enforcement. This is the final such report that will be released during the Obama Administration. The annual review looked at 73 trading partners, placing 34…

A surge in teen moviegoing helped to lift total box office spending in North America by 6.7% last year to $11.1 billion, the Motion Picture Association of America said today in its annual Theatrical Market Statistics report. Total admissions at 1.32 billion were up 3.9%. That’s the first annual increase since 2012…

WRITETHRU, 10:51 AM: MPAA chairman and CEO Chris Dodd today made his fifth keynote address at CinemaCon and got rousing applause as he heralded the 2015 box office year: $38.3B worldwide and $11.1bB domestic. “I’m proud to say that the state of our industry has never been stronger,” the former U.S. senator told the…

The MPAA entered the service business this morning with the launch of an ad-free website –WhereToWatch.com – that guides visitors to legitimate online platforms for particular movies and TV shows. The destination, supported by the trade group’s six member studios, aims to become a one-stop shop to help people buy…

Exhibition execs face several controversial matters, but “there’s peace in the homeland” in their relationships with studios, NATO‘s John Fithian said in his annual joint press meeting with MPAA‘s Chris Dodd at the CinemaCon confab. The lobby group heads always emphasize the positive, but this time Fithian sounds like…

These are old themes for the MPAA chief, but he had some fresh data to support his case in his presentation at CinemaCon this morning. He says that box office in China soared to $3.6B in 2013, a year when sales in the U.S. and Canada hit $10.9B (+1%) and overseas hit $25B (+4.6%). Chris Dodd says that 13 new screens…

The Hollywood’s lobby group’s finances took a hit in 2012, a tax filing shows — but CEO Chris Dodd did just fine even as the MPAA licked its wounds from its failed effort to promote tough anti-piracy legislation. Dodd’s compensation came to $3.3M last year. (The package: $3M base compensation, $250,000 bonus, $41,930…

When the Commerce Department reported this morning that the Gross Domestic Product rose 1.7% from April through June, the figure was 3% higher than expected — and that’s partly due to the change, MPAA chief Chris Dodd says in a blog post. The department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis revises its GDP calculation…

The trade group CEO helped it to justify its status as a non-profit in his first year as Hollywood’s chief lobbyist. Although revenues grew 22.5% to $60.8M in 2011,  expenses were up 26.2% to $61M resulting in a loss of $246,879, according to the tax form posted online by Torrentfreak. Chris Dodd‘s compensation…

Hollywood was quick to respond to last Friday’s horrible school shooting in Newtown, Conn, cancelling red carpets and postponing TV programs that showed anything close to violent behavior involving guns and kids. But the greater industry bodies have been mostly mum. Maybe that will change now that the Obama…

If you’re on Facebook, you’ve probably seen a statement loaded with legalese that users post hoping to create a copyright protection for their content. It’s based on a belief that the social network company changed its rules so it can exploit the material. A minor, and mistaken, rumor? Perhaps. But MPAA chief Chris Dod…

Just like it did for the Republicans during their convention last week, the MPAA has given the thumbs up to the Democrats for their stance on intellectual property and Internet freedom. This comes as the Democrats kick off their three day convention in Charlotte, NC today. "The administration is vigorously protecting…