As chief of the Motion Picture Association of America, Dan Glickman has a job to protect the intellectual property of filmmakers.
But sometimes, he has a personal stake in it as well. Glickman’s son is a movie producer whose credits include “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and the current “27 Dresses.”
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Speaking at the Q&A Café at Nathans of Georgetown, Glickman recalled traveling in China on the very day that “Hitchhiker’s” was released, and seeing a pirated copy of the movie being sold in a store.
“I take this personally,” he told the Chinese minister in charge of copyright. And the minister listened, too: The Chinese government shut down the store that night. “They now refer to that store in China as ‘Glickman’s store,’ ” he said.
