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 while it was headed by Jack Valenti. This organization’s first president, former 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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