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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$17.5M
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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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RIAA decries souped-up file swapping
- 2005-04-18
Wednesday, April 13 RIAA Decries Souped-Up File Swapping: The recording industry's newest crackdown on music-file sharing extended to UC San Diego. The Recording Industry Association of America filed suit against 25 UCSD students who allegedly shared songs using Internet2, a high-capacity telecom network linking research institutions. The group...
Studios suing students over file-swapping: MPAA, RIAA coordinate hundreds of legal actions.(Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America )
- 2005-04-18
The studios and record companies are taking legal aim at a new breed of file-trading networks that operate at lightning fast speed, allowing movies to be downloaded in as little as live minutes and reducing the transfer time for music files to mere The...
RIAA targets students in new file-swapping suits.(BUSINESS)
- 2004-11-01
The Recording Industry Association of America filed another round of lawsuits against alleged file-swappers, including students on 13 university campuses. The 750 suits come just a few days after Internet researchers released a study that found peer-to-peer traffic had remained constant or risen...
Freeze! Drop the song! File-swappers targeted
- 2004-10-07
Song-swappers beware: Lawmakers appear determined to put a serious dent in online file-sharing. Responding to the pleas of the recording industry -- which says music sales are still flagging despite a recent uptick -- politicians in both houses of Congress have passed a multitude of bills aimed at protecting...
Digital radio pirates pose new threat to the recording industry.
- 2004-09-19
By Tony Glover, The Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 19--Just as the music recording industry starts to tackle file swapping over the internet, a new form of digital music piracy is threatening its revenues. The Recording Industry Association of America...
Legal setback in RIAA's hunt for file-sharers: in victory for ISPs, judge's OK needed before filing suit.(a federal appeals court nixes music labels' methods of tracking down identities of online music file-swappers)
- 2003-12-22
WASHINGTON -- Dealing a serious blow to the recording industry's controversial anti-piracy campaign, a federal appeals court last week nixed music labels' methods of tracking down identities of online music file-swappers. The ruling, from a t WASHINGTON --...
Appeals Court Deals Blow to Music Industry's Crackdown on Illegal Downloads.
- 2003-12-20
The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 20--An appeals court dealt a setback Friday to the recording industry's campaign to sue people who illegally download music by making it harder to get their identities from Internet service providers. ...
Music File Swappers Prevail in Ruling.
- 2003-12-20
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 20--A federal court Friday blocked the recording industry from easily obtaining the names of music downloaders from Internet service providers. That means the secret identities of thousands of...
"Don't Shoot The Messenger: Copyright Infringement In The Digital Age".
- 2003-11-24
Music Industry Lawyer and Senior Lecturer in Law, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK From the humble VHS machine to Internet file swapping, the issue of hardware and software - which has both infringing and non-infringing uses - has long troubled the courts on a...
Record Labels Give File Sharers Option to Settle.
- 2003-10-18
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--The recording industry opened a fresh salvo against online file swapping this week, warning 204 people that they will be sued for illegally downloading music. ...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
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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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| Riaa | Vice President Music Richter Records | 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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