On his visit to DreamWorks this week, the President praised Jeffrey Katzenberg and spent more than an hour talking with studio heads about piracy, Obamacare, Iran and other issues.

Studio Heads Describe Private Meeting with Obama as 'Love Fest' - The Hollywood Reporter

When President Barack Obama addressed Hollywood’s major studio heads at the DreamWorks Animation campus Wednesday, he touched on a subject dear to Hollywood when he expressed hope of bringing the studios and Silicon Valley together on an effective remedy for digital piracy.

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Nonetheless, an executive in attendance saw no reason to hope that antipiracy legislation will be on the agenda anytime soon.

Still, one of the 15 invited executives, who asked not to be identified, described the whole session to The Hollywood Reporter as a “love fest.”

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For industry insiders following the online piracy legislative wars, there was an interesting subtext to the event: It’s still DWA chiefJeffrey Katzenberg -- whose company is not part of the Motion Picture Association of America -- who holds the key to White House access.

In January 2012, as rumors spread that the White House would oppose key aspects of the industry's favored antipiracy legislation, MPAA head Chris Dodd was forced to call Katzenberg to inquire about the administration's thinking. Although the president went out of his way to single Dodd out several times in his remarks during the meeting, one guest says there is still no getting around the fact that Katzenberg had convened the meeting and extended the invitations.