Round 3: Tossup 8

This American organization co-sponsored the training of the labrador retrievers Lucky and Flo. Dore Schary was the only member of a group of 48 to write about the discussion this organization held before issuing a 1947 statement named for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. In 2006, pressure from the WTO and this organization motivated the Swedish government to raid The Pirate Bay. In a 1982 Congressional hearing, this organization’s leader used the Boston strangler as an analogy for the (*) threat posed by the VCR. For a 2006 documentary, Kirby Dick hired a private eye to expose the identities of members of this organization (10[1])while it was headed by Jack Valenti. This organization’s first president, former (10[1])Postmaster General Will H. Hays, named its 20th-century production code. For 10 points, name this organization that assigns ratings to American films. ■END■

ANSWER: MPA [or Motion Picture Association; or MPAA; or Motion Picture Association of America; or Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America; or MPPDA] (Lucky and Flo were the first animals trained to detect optical discs by scent. The 2006 documentary is This Film Is Not Yet Rated.)
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