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• Tech Legal Week: 'Vista Capable' and Microsoft, RIAA Appeal, Facebook Sues, More

  BNET - 2009-01-05

  Microsoft makes an estimated $1.5 billion off XP licensing on "Vista Capable" machines, and sees a Chinese court sentence 11 software pirates; RIAA won't get to appeal mistrial on suit against Minnesota woman and drops MediaSentry, which used to get the evidence for its lawsuits against consumers; Facebook sues Power.com...

  Tags: Facebook, RIAA, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Cree, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Erik Sherman

• Facebook Joins MySpace In Banning Project Playlist

  Content Next - 2008-12-24

  Facebook resisted a few days longer than MySpace but finally has given in to the RIAA's demands that the Project Playlist app be removed for copyright violation. It's been a real take-one-step-forward and two-steps-back few days for Project Playlist, which also scored a big win by signing a licensing...

  Tags: Facebook, RIAA, MySpace, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Companies, News Corp., Sony, Entertainment, Music, Legal, Social Media, Staci D. Kramer, Sony Corp., Warner Music Group Corp.

• Recording Industry Moves Away From Lawsuits, Enlists ISPs In Piracy Fight

  Content Next - 2008-12-19

  After years of engaging in a largely futile campaign of lawsuits against illegal file-sharers, the Recording Industry Association of America is giving up that tactic. Instead, the RIAA hopes to enlist the help of broadband ISPs to stop music pirates from giving away copyrighted material, WSJ reported. The record...

  Tags: Lawsuit, Industry, RIAA, Internet Service Provider, Record Label Organ, RIIA, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Piracy, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Entertainment, Music, Legal, Patents, Technologies/Formats, P2P, David Kaplan

• Media Roundup: Universal's YouTube Profits, RIAA Stops Suing, and More

  BNET - 2008-12-19

  Today's roundup: Universal Music seeing tens of millions from YouTube, RIAA to stop suing users, Glam Media cuts salaries, and EA lays off 10 percent of its workforce. by Sean Blanda

  Tags: Media, RIAA, YouTube Inc., Piracy, Corporate Communications, Payroll Solutions, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Human Resources, Sean Blanda

• Paramore Unveils "The Final RIOT!"; CD/DVD Set Features Explosive Live Recordings, Plus Exclusive Documentary, "40 Days of RIOT!"; New Single, "Decode," Electrifies Online in Advance of "Twilight" Soundtrack Album;

  - 2008-10-17

  Fueled By Ramen recording group Paramore has announced details of their upcoming CD/DVD set, "The Final RIOT!" Filmed and recorded during the band's blockbuster 2008 summer tour, the two-disc package arrives in stores on November 25th. Having traveled nearly non-stop since the release of last year's RIAA platinum-certified...

  Tags: CD, DVD, MARKETING, music, nomination, radio, RIAA, T-Mobile

• Media Roundup: MySpace Music Launches, the RIAA Loses in Court, Kinsey Wilson Joins NPR, and More

  BNET - 2008-09-25

  MySpace Music launches to great... underwhelm -- Consensus among critics is that MySpace Music, the much-awaited music-streaming site, is glitchy, poorly designed, and too difficult to navigate. But TechCrunch's Michael Arrington points out that it's an important step toward the inevitable future, i.e., free music online. (Sources: AVC, PaidContent, Idolator,...

  Tags: TechCrunch, Media, NPR, RIAA, MySpace, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Internet, Karen Steen

• Record Industry: The RIAA And Piracy Of Music

  BNET - 2008-08-14

  The music industry has come to the point where they either need to start charging less, or start paying artists more. The answer is not more Digital Rights Management DRM or watermarking, it's making music available to everyone. There will likely always be piracy, when you put a DRM on...

  Tags: Digital-rights Management, Industry, RIAA, Music, Associated Content, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Digital Media, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

• Music Piracy: Is Downloading Music Ethical?

  BNET - 2008-08-02

  The Recording Industry Association of America has been adamant in its attempt to curb peer-to-peer music downloading. In a rash of lawsuits against file-sharers, the RIAA claims to fight the noble fight, defending artists' revenue and intellectual property. The part that they leave out is that the only people who...

  Tags: P2P, RIAA, Piracy, Music, Associated Content, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet

• U. campus targeted in music piracy

  - 2008-05-24

  The music industry is tightening its grips on University of Utah students who they believe have pirated songs. Last week, the Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry, notified the university of its intent to sue individuals who it contends...

  Tags: E-mail, INTERNET, Litigation, piracy, RIAA

• Villanova warns students: Stop illegal downloads

  - 2008-04-26

  The number of Villanova University students illegally downloading music jumped sharply this spring, according to a music industry trade group. The university warned students to stop or face stiff penalties. Other area universities and colleges contacted have experienced similar surges in complaints from the Recording Industry Association of America but...

  Tags: INTERNET, RIAA, Villanova University

• "LUPE FIASCO'S THE COOL" Earns RIAA Gold; Critically Acclaimed MC Celebrates With Major North American Tour Supporting Kanye West; "Superstar" Continues to Shine as New Single, "Hip-Hop Saved My Life," Is Readied for May

  - 2008-04-25

  "LUPE FIASCO'S THE COOL," the chart-topping second album from 1st & 15th/Atlantic recording artist Lupe Fiasco, has been certified gold by the RIAA for sales exceeding 500,000. The critically acclaimed album -- which features the hit singles, "Superstar (Feat. Matthew Santos)" and "Hip-Hop Saved My Life (Feat. Nikki Jean)"...

  Tags: RIAA

• Singing the digital blues

  - 2008-04-01

  A training video designed to help instruct U.S. prosecutors on how to confront music piracy cases was recently leaked to the internet. The video, which was produced by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA in conjunction with the National District Attorneys Association, actually takes a somewhat surprising turn when...

  Tags: CD, MARKETING, RIAA

• Content and Consumer Electronics Industries Unite to Advocate Pro-International Trade Policymaking

  - 2008-01-07

  CEA, MPAA, RIAA Formally Ask Congress to Act LAS VEGAS -- The content and consumer electronics industries united around a policy issue driving both industries - international trade. Today, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA[R]), the Motion Picture Association of America MPAA and the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA...

  Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, industry, MPAA, RIAA, Strategy, U.S. Congress

• Twenty-Six Arrest Orders Issued Today for Copyright Violations

  - 2007-12-18

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Lymarie V. Llovet-Ayala of the Office of United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez, District of Puerto Rico, +1- 787-282-1820 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In May 2007, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE agents, working in conjunction with U.S. Secret Service USSS, the Puerto...

  Tags: attorney, MPAA, music, RIAA, U.S.

• Paramore Get Grammy Nod for "Best New Artist" as "RIOT!" Scores RIAA Gold Certification; Punk-Pop Sensations Set to Star on Upcoming Alternative Press Cover; Band Slated for MTV's New Year's Eve Performance and Sold Out UK Tour

  - 2007-12-07

  Fueled By Ramen recording group Paramore has been nominated as "Best New Artist" at the upcoming 50th Annual Grammy Awards, it was announced this week. The news comes just as "RIOT!," the band's acclaimed second album, has received RIAA gold certification for sales exceeding 500,000 units. Released earlier...

  Tags: MTV, RIAA

• I fought the law and the law won

  - 2007-12-01

  A Minnesota woman was found liable for copyright infringement by a federal jury in the first music piracy case to go to trial. Jammie Thomas was ordered to pay $222,000 ($9,250 per song) for illegally downloading 24 songs and making them available online through the file-sharing network Kazaa. Thomas denied...

  Tags: INTERNET, Kazaa, RIAA

• Music industry group resumes anti-piracy campaign on college campuses

  - 2007-10-18

  In its ongoing campaign to fight illegal sharing of digital music files, the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA has marked the launch of the 2007-08 academic year by sending 403 pre-litigation settlement letters to 22 U.S. universities. Sent on behalf of major record companies, the letters allege evidence that...

  Tags: antipiracy, music, network, NETWORKING, RIAA

• Music industry wins key victory in illegal US download trial

  - 2007-10-05

  WASHINGTON AFP — The music industry has won a key legal victory in a US civil trial on illegal downloading, a case likely to send a strong message on piracy through cyberspace. In the first US trial to challenge the illegal downloading of music on the Internet, a single...

  Tags: industry, INTERNET, Litigation, music, Piracy, RIAA

• Efforts to Stop Campus Downloading Continue

  - 2007-10-01

  The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA sent out a new wave of prelitigation letters last month to 58 universities, giving students an opportunity to resolve copyright infringement suits pending against them. This is the seventh wave in a wide-scale initiative to clamp down on illegal downloading on college campuses....

  Tags: INTERNET, MARKETING, RIAA

• San Jacinto College Seeks to Protect Against Threats Introduced by Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

  - 2007-09-25

  Houston College Selects Mirage to Secure Campus Networks AUSTIN, Texas -- Mirage Networks, developer of full-cycle Network Access Control NAC solutions, today announced that San Jacinto College in Houston has implemented Mirage's NAC technology across three campuses to maintain network uptime and availability in part by curtailing peer-to-peer (P2P)...

  Tags: network, NETWORKING, P2P, RIAA