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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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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...
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)...
IHEs get new warning on file piracy
- 2006-06-01
WE'VE WRITTEN A NUMBER OF TIMES about the problem of illegal file sharing on college and university networks. Several years ago when the issue first came onto the public radar, the conventional wisdom was that colleges and universities wouldn't be held liable for the activities of students on their networks....
Dynamic analysis of an institutional conflict: copyright owners against online file sharing
- 2005-09-01
Online music-sharing networks have been used by millions of people since they first appeared in 1999 (Leuf 2002; Associated Press 2004). The popularity of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology and the low-cost music distribution channel it created threaten the dominant position of a small number of large firms in the commercial music...
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...
College students face lawsuits on file sharing
- 2005-04-13
LOS ANGELES -- The major record labels, in an ongoing battle about digital music piracy, on Tuesday announced plans to sue college students who use a super-high-speed campus network to share songs. The Recording Industry Association of America will file copyright infringement lawsuits against 405 students at 18 schools...
Net music piracy goes to high court
- 2005-01-24
The recording industry -- preparing for a Supreme Court showdown over online music piracy -- today files legal briefs to support its argument that operators of online song-swap networks should be liable for the actions of the people who use them. The Supreme Court hearing scheduled for March 29...
Recording industry sues computer users
- 2004-03-24
LOS ANGELES -- The recording industry sued 532 people Tuesday, including scores of individuals using computer networks at 21 universities, claiming they were illegally sharing digital music files over the Internet. This latest wave of copyright lawsuits brought by the Recording Industry Association of America on behalf...
Music industry launches fresh round of piracy lawsuits
- 2004-03-23
WASHINGTON AFP ? The recording industry announced a fresh round of lawsuits against suspected online music pirates, targeting 532 individuals, including some using networks at major US universities. The initiative by the Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the major record companies, was among the largest against those...
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...
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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