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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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MP3 pioneer stirred RIAA action, exited market as major players entered.(reality check: YESTERDAY'S HYPE MEETS TODAY'S REALITY)
- 2006-02-02
STATES Price at introduction: $199.95 / Storage capacity: 32 Mbytes, 60 minutes of music STATES Price at introduction: $199.95 / Storage capacity: 32 Mbytes, 60 minutes of music
Will Time Trax Product Launch Rattle the RIAA, Again?; TraxCatcher Rips Near Perfect Individual MP3 Tracks from FM Radio
- 2006-01-07
WASHINGTON -- Time Trax Technologies, whose hardware and software products allow people to easily deaggregate radio broadcasts to timeshift and build free music libraries, announced a new product line at CES today. The Time Trax TraxCatcher is an FM radio dock with an MP3 player that anyone can use to...
Will Time Trax Product Launch Rattle the RIAA, Again?; TraxCatcher Rips Near Perfect Individual MP3 Tracks from FM Radio.
- 2006-01-06
WASHINGTON, Jan 6, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Time Trax Technologies, whose hardware and software products allow people to easily deaggregate radio broadcasts to timeshift and build free music libraries, announced a new product line at CES toda WASHINGTON, Jan 6, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX --...
The music industry's war on piracy
- 2004-02-01
Much like the World Wide Web once was, Internet music and MP3s used to be reserved for the computer gurus of the world. Only those keen on advanced searching techniques could find digital music on the Web, which mostly consisted of obscure or cult singles. Then in 1999, Shawn...
AN UNFINISHED Symphony.(recording industry's failed attempts to deal with the Internet)
- 2001-10-01
Like an autocratic symphony director, the recording industry kept tight control over the music it made for more than 50 years. Artists, publishers, distributors, music lovers--even electronics companies--danced to the tune of the record companies. Then along came compressed digital music files--called MP3 files--demanding an entirely...
Napster Wars: Will It Hurt MP3?
- 2000-08-21
Could the RIAA choke off MP3 player sales and kill the market for NAND flash? Napster Inc. has been granted a stay of execution. The court of appeals has yet to decide whether the Redwood City, Calif.-based company is in the business of file-sharing or file-stealing. But if...
The Three Ring Circus of MP3, CE and SDMI.
- 2000-06-01
A good laugh. That's the first thing you'll get when you ask industry insiders what's been happening with MP3 music and the Internet. The news in this industry has been a soap opera of lawsuits, private investigations and name-calling. But as laughable as...
NATURE takes its COURSE: mp3-capable DVD players - Technology Information
- 2000-05-01
What is Apex Digital and why is its latest product creating such a stir? Apex itself is a little hard to get a handle on. If has offices in Ontario, California, but is apparently based in China. So what product does this little known company produce? For starters, a DVD...
The Recording Industry Piper Sings: IT'S TIME TO PAY
- 2000-03-06
If copyrights didn't exist, there'd be a lot more than poor artists on the streets. There would be a lot of out-of-work lawyers in the world, too. In the realm of online music, where the digital sludge has hit the fan first, there are a couple of lawsuits that help...
Providence Journal, R.I., Cybertalk Column.
- 1999-11-28
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 29 -- MUSIC SHAREWARE SKIPS OVER DETAIL OF COPYRIGHT LAW: Shawn Fanning enjoyed listening to MP3 files, but downloading the music files from the Internet proved to be tedious. As an 18-year-old student at Boston's Northeastern University, he grew...
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 |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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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 of Latin Music | 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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