Dan Glickman
Dan Glickman
Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickmanis an American businessman and politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Kansas's 4th congressional district of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He was Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of Americafrom 2004–2010. He serves as a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, where he focuses on public health, national security, and economic policy issues. He also...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 November 1944
CountryUnited States of America
Our ultimate goal is a global market for films and filmed entertainment unimpeded by the artificialities of government policies, instead governed only by the tastes and demands of the audiences and our ability to meet those demands.
There is not a budget cap on firefighting, ... When it comes to natural disasters, the government does respond, and Congress does respond, the president does respond.
I have received an official request from the government of the Russian Federation for additional food assistance, ... The United States is now in the process of reviewing this request.
I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
I think this is one of the areas we will get the support for, ... We're going to push.
Peer-to-peer technology is here to stay... What's more, the film industry will have to come up with a 'reasonable-cost', hassle-free way for people to download movies legally for it to continue to prosper.
Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future,
Piracy not only has an economic impact on our industry, ... but it has an impact on the creative spirit in this country.
Piracy is a dagger in the heart of a growing Russian film industry.
Kansas is not going to become the Hollywood of the future. But the film studios are looking to make quality stories, interesting stories, all over the country.
It appears to be more about trade than the promotion of cultural diversity. The World Trade Organization is the place for (trade),
We and others in our industry should do our best to eliminate gratuitous on-screen portrayals of smoking, particularly in movies that children see, ... I don't like to be in a position to dictate what a storyteller can or cannot say.
We've got to do a better job of segregating those commodities to make sure that ... we basically protect people from things that haven't been approved, ... The FDA is monitoring the situation very closely, very carefully. I don't think there is any public health and safety issue here, but the fact is the product has not been approved for human consumption. It should not be served.
We have followed most commodities from the time they arrive in Russia to the point of distribution,