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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- China's restrictions on foreign films helps piracy thrive, Motion Picture Association of America chief Dan Glickman told a Senate hearing Monday.
There is a "marketplace vacuum" in China that pirates are only too happy to fill, Glickman told Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information and International Security.
"If you did not see a counterfeit DVD, you were not in China," The Hollywood Reporter quoted Glickman as saying.
About 90 percent of DVDs sold in China are pirated versions, he added.
Seven entertainment industry professionals testified at the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills, Calif., all saying Chinese officials are not enforcing laws they earlier agreed to.
Coburn estimated piracy of all products in China costs the U.S. economy at least $19 billion and 240,000 jobs per year.
Coburn said the U.S. film industry is the "poster boy for this problem."
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