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• 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

• 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

• 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

• Digital Version of Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" Passes Two Million Mark

  - 2007-01-11

  "Bad Day" -- the debut single from Grammy-nominated pop singer Daniel Powter -- has become the first-ever digital single to be certified double platinum by the RIAA, having sold more than two million downloads in the U.S. The piano-driven pop track was the biggest-selling digital single in 2006, spending...

  Tags: DVD, MARKETING, RIAA, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• The Fray Announce Winter Tour

  - 2006-10-31

  Hit Album, How To Save A Life Certified RIAA Platinum How To Save a Life is the #3 Digital Album of All-time NEW YORK -- The Fray, a Denver-based band are currently headlining a string of tour dates to support their major-label debut, How To Save A Life...

  Tags: auditorium, MARKETING, RIAA, SALES, theater

• Cell-only users worry pollsters

  - 2006-05-21

  The growing number of cellphone-only users has become a challenge for pollsters. Their survey research depends on contacting random samples of households with land lines, so they worry that if the trend toward cell-only users continues they could miss a significant number of people, weakening their ability to accurately measure...

  Tags: Cell, cell, MARKETING, phone, RIAA, survey, XM Satellite Radio Inc.

• The music of chance.(the nonlinear editor)

  - 2006-04-01

  there's an old story, recounted in Paul Auster's The Locked Room, of an Arctic explorer named Peter reuchen who hunkers down in an igloo to avoid roving wolves outside. Once inside, he finds that every breath he exhales freezes to the inside of his igloo. So with...

  Tags: MARKETING, Miller, music, RIAA

• PROTECTING DIGITAL BROADCAST CONTENT

  - 2005-11-04

  Statement of Michael Petricone Vice President, Government Affairs Consumer Electronics Association CEA Committee on House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property November 3, 2005 On behalf of the Home Recording Rights Coalition and the Consumer Electronics Association, I greatly appreciate the subcommittee`s invitation to appear today. The...

  Tags: broadcasting, Consumer Electronics Association, FCC, Government, MARKETING, NETWORKING, radio, RIAA, satellite, Strategy, technology, U.S. Congress

• "Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill" Is Certified Gold

  - 2005-06-13

  "Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill," the third album from Warner Bros. recording artist Blake Shelton, has been certified gold by the RIAA in recognition of 500,000 units sold. Miranda Lambert presented Blake with the 3' x 3' plaque commemorating the milestone. The presentation was made at Nashville's Coliseum during Friday...

  Tags: DVD, MARKETING, RIAA, SALES, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.