When Gary Shapiro first started working for consumer electronics manufacturers as a budding attorney still enrolled at Georgetown Law, the big thing was VCRs. So big that the association he represented, now called the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), was in the midst of a pitched, decade-long battle with Hollywood studios that didn’t want viewers recording movies and TV shows.Universal City Studios and Walt Disney Productions had filed suit against VCR maker Sony Corporation of America in 1976. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 for Sony in the so-called Betamax case in 1984, and the rest is history. Of course, so is the VCR, illustrating the pace of change at CTA, which Shapiro has led as… Read More