Editor’s note: Ruth Vitale, who previously held executive posts at Paramount Classics, Fine Line Features and New Line Cinema, is CEO of CreativeFuture , a nonprofit coalition of more than 500 companies and organizations and nearly 300,000 individuals devoted to promoting the value of creativity in the digital age.

In 2013 I stepped away from a three-decade career as a film executive, having championed independent films and the next generation of voices, to become the CEO of CreativeFuture.

It became clear to me that digital piracy posed a significant threat to the creative industries. Nowhere was the threat greater than the indie film community that I helped build. And so I immersed myself in the remarkably different world of Washington, D.C., leading an organization that advocates

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