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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Its mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality. Its members are the record companies that comprise the most vibrant national music industry in the world. RIAA members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States. In support of this mission, the RIAA works to protect intellectual property rights worldwide and the First Amendment rights of artists; conducts consumer, industry and technical research; and monitors and reviews state and federal laws, regulations and policies. The RIAA also certifies Gold , Platinum , Multi-Platinum , and Diamond sales awards, as well as Los Premios De Oro y Platino , an award celebrating Latin music sales. We are located at 1025 F ST N.W., 10th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004. You can contact us at 202/775-0101. RIAA has implemented ACAP. For more information, please visit http://www.the-acap.org.
Chairman and CEO, Recording Industry Association of America
Mitch BainwolNumber of Employees 74
Contact Information
1025F St NW Fl 10
Washington, District of Columbia 20004
1 202 775 0101
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NAICS Code All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing: 339999
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Collective licensing proposed
- 2004-03-15
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation has offered the music industry a compromise over the issue of peer-to-peer file sharing of music and copyright protection, but the Recording Industry Association of America remains scornful of its scheme. Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney with the...
Amnesty for Music File Sharing Is a Sham
BNET
- 2003-09-26
The paper discusses about the copyright issues in music industry. The RIAA has proposed as its "solution" to file sharing: an "amnesty" for file-sharers. Just delete the MP3s you've downloaded, shared those CD-R copies, confess your guilt and, in return, the most change-resistant companies in the nation will give you...
File Sharing Must Be Made Legal
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- 2003-09-12
The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA has finally launched its campaign of lawsuits against the 60 million Americans who file-share. And already, we've seen the first casualties, a 12-year-old girl and her mother in New York must pay $2,000 they don't have in a hastened settlement; a 71-year-old grandfather...
File Sharing Yields Various Questions.
- 2003-09-10
By Tamara Chuang, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 10--The recording industry has filed lawsuits against hundreds of people -- from 12-year-old girls to grandfathers -- accusing them of illegally downloading music through free file-sharing services. News of...
EFF Throws A Curve At RIAA's Subpoena Effort
- 2003-07-30
The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF, a San Francisco-based digital civil liberties watchdog organization, on Tuesday launched an online service to inform users as to whether they have been targeted for a subpoena from the DC-based Recording Industry Association of America RIAA. The RIAA, the trade organization that represents the...
Hundreds of Lawsuits Augment Debate over Music-Sharing.
- 2003-07-07
The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 7--Emboldened by the recent growth of fee-based music services, such as iTunes and Listen.com, the Recording Industry Association of America has announced plans to file hundreds of lawsuits in the coming months against ...
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Shutdown of Aimster File-Swapping Service.
- 2003-07-01
By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 1--A federal appeals court in Chicago yesterday upheld an injunction that shut down the file-sharing service Aimster to stop its users from illegally swapping copyrighted music recordings. The...
Consumer groups side with Verizon against the music industry.(Brief Article)
- 2002-09-04
TV MEETS THE WEB-C2002 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ In the latest saga of the music industry's attempts to overcome pirates, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and eleven consumer and privacy groups have sided with ISP Verizon in its case ...
PROFESSOR FLUB.(Brief Article)
- 2001-06-11
sweeting By picking on Professor Felten, the RIAA was creating something altogether different: a sympathetic victim of the DMCA. Although normally allies on matters relating to copyright law, there was a day back in April when...
Newsbytes Top Stories 06/06/01
- 2001-06-06
Business Editors WASHINGTON, DC--BUSINESS WIRE--June 6, 2001 Newsbytes E-Letter - The highlights of today's Newsbytes news wire are:-- EFF Takes On RIAA Over Squelched Research -- Bulgarian Bugmeister Turns His Gaze To Sun -- 'Miss World' Virus Uses Sex Angle To Lure The Unwary --...
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Decision Makers
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| Jonathan Lamy | Senior Vice President, Communications |
| Rafael Fernandez | Vice President of Latin Music |
| Vox Lumania | Vice President Music Richter Records |
| Billy Corgan | |
| Edito Classica | |
| Elton John | |
| Garth Brooks | Artist |
| Prawn Song | |
| Red Seal | |
| Sparrow Kids |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
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| Mitch Bainwol | Chairman and CEO, Recording Industry Association of America |
| Glen Barros | Board of Directors |
| Jeff Harlestond | Board of Directors |
| Kevin Liles | Board of Directors |
| Lawrence Kenswil | Board of Directors |
| Mel Lewinter | Board of Directors |
| Michael Fleisher | Board of Directors |
| Michael Koch | Board of Directors |
| Zach Horowitz | Board of Directors |
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| Riaa | Chairman and CEO, Recording Industry Association of America | Current |
| Supreme Court of the United States | Former | |
| Rice University | M.B.A. | Former |
| Georgetown University | Undergraduate Degree | Former |
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| Riaa | Senior Vice President, Communications | Current |
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Garth Brooks is the highest-certified solo artist in U.S. music history according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). With over 100 million albums certified since 1989, Mr. Brooks is the fastest-selling album artist in RIAA history and is the only male artist in RIAA history to have four albums top the 10 million mark. Mr. Brooks recently received the RIAA's newest honor, the Diamond Award, for albums selling over 10 million units in the U.S. The four titles earning this distinction are: No Fences, Ropin' the Wind, The Hits, and Double Live.
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| The American Austrian Foundation Inc. | Founder and CEO Koch Entertainment | Current |
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