The Movement Image Affiliation has employed Larissa Knapp, who the MPA says is was the fourth-highest-ranking official on the FBI, to guide its battle in opposition to worldwide piracy. (Who’re the highest 3? We’re glad you requested! It’s Director Christopher Wray, Deputy Director Paul Abbate, and Affiliate Deputy Director Brian C. Turner.)
Primarily based in Washington D.C., Knapp would be the MPA’s chief content material safety officer. She’ll report back to Karyn Temple, the Movement Image Affiliation’s senior govt vp and international basic counsel.
Knapp spent 27 years with the FBI, most not too long ago main its Nationwide Safety Department, the place she managed a $300 million finances and a pair of,000 personnel. Beforehand, she led the FBI’s Safety, Coaching and Human Sources Divisions and Knowledge Analytics. Knapp began her FBI profession as an agent dealing with mental property and cybercrimes.
Now, Knapp will lead the continued enlargement of the MPA’s Alliance for Creativity and Leisure (ACE), which calls itself the world’s main on-line anti-piracy group.
“Larissa’s extraordinary background main investigations groups the world over and efficiently pursuing felony instances will undoubtedly take ACE’s content material safety efforts to a brand new peak of excellence,” Charlie Rivkin, the chairman and CEO of the MPA, mentioned in a press release to media. “With Larissa’s expertise in high-risk, advanced organizational environments coupled together with her visionary management, I’m assured that our content material safety enforcement enterprise will solely develop in stature and impression, as we safeguard the rights and productions of all those that conceive, develop, and ship inventive masterpieces for screens massive and small.”
Rivkin has made it clear how he feels about piracy and its contributors. At CinemaCon 2022, Rivkin known as intellectual-property pirates the “real-life mobsters.” He added that income generated by piracy “is commonly folded into different unlawful actions like playing, cash laundering, tax evasion, medicine, grand theft auto, and prostitution.”
Knapp’s on the case.
“I’m honored to be a part of such an iconic international group that prioritizes the integrity of the inventive financial system, pushed by ACE members’ groundbreaking movies, TV collection, and streaming content material. These works symbolize a number of the most influential and accessible types of creative expression, connecting creators with audiences on a profound stage,” Knapp mentioned. “My profession in legislation enforcement has afforded me the chance to guide strategic initiatives defending authorized rights and addressing crime on a big scale, and I sit up for leveraging that have within the battle in opposition to copyright infringement on behalf of our members and content material creators all over the world.”
Knapp holds a Bachelor’s Diploma in economics from Union School in New York and a Juris Physician from Hamline College in Minnesota.