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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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Diamond Multimedia, RIAA Settle Lawsuit Over Rio MP3 Player
- 1999-08-05
Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc and the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA have settled all pending litigation relating to Diamond's Rio portable MP3 player. The Rio plays music downloaded from the internet in the copyright-unprotected MP3 audio compression format. In 1998, RIAA sued Diamond on the grounds that Rio may...
MP3 "Space-Shifting" Ruled Fair Use Under Copyright Law
- 1999-07-12
A US Court of Appeals panel has ruled that the MP3 audio compression format "space-shifts" digital music files in the same way a video recorder "time-shifts" television shows. That ruling implies that copying legitimately obtained files with MP3 technology should be considered "fair use" under copyright law. The landmark decision...
MP3 hardware field gets crowded: more choices in a fast-growing arena.(Industry Overview)
- 1999-06-01
The contrast between the agonizingly long gestation period for the DVD-Audio format and the surprisingly rapid development of the MP3 Internet-based format is both immediately apparent and remarkable. The difference in how they came to market underscores the fact that each saw its development driven from...
Diamond multimedia's Rio PMP300 MP3player - Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc
- 1999-06-01
diamond multimedia's Rio PMP300 MP3 player synopsis: Prize of prizes, Diamond's Rio PMP300, a compact, controversial new system for encoding and playing audio tracks from the Internet and other sources in near Red Book-quality MP3, is a tiny wonder of modern industry. Downloading up to 37 minutes of MP3s...
Lucent Teams With eDigital, TI on Secure Rival to MP3
- 1999-04-22
Lucent Technologies Inc is working with e.Digital Corp to build a new handheld device for playing music downloaded from the internet. The device, which e.Digital plans to manufacture, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder EPAC and a new class of digital signal processors DSPs...
Disc piracy: it costs more than you think.(includes related article on packaging)
- 1999-03-01
Back in the 1980s, VHS piracy reached an estimated $100 million in copyright losses worldwide, enough to push the issue onto the front burners and front pages. But once the losses from CD Audio and ROM discs became more widely known, the media attention it began to...
RIAA loses bid for injunction to stop sale of Diamond Multimedia RIO MP3 Player; appeal pending
- 1999-01-01
The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA has sued Diamond Multimedia over the company's portable MP3 player, the Rio, resulting in some rapidfire headlines, a battle of press releases, some hastily called news conferences, and an interesting, yet puzzling, court ruling. In an effort to "protect the creative content...
keep those CARDS and LETTERS coming
- 1999-01-01
How about putting 250 or so songs on a single CD-R? On a Red Book audio CD, you couldn't record them as 250 discrete tracks, since the format limits you to 99, and 99 tracks in 74 minutes hardly leaves much room for musical enlightenment. But if you play CDs...
Tuning in to your computer
- 1998-12-14
SAN FRANCISCO -- The future of the music industry can now be heard through your own home computer, where a new technology called MP3 could reshape the way we buy and hear music. In the time it would take to drive to the record store, spend $16.99 on...
Analysts Predicting Legal Hurdles For Online Music Technology.
- 1998-11-18
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 18 -- LAS VEGAS -- It's about the size of a pack of cigarettes and plays music with CD-quality sound. But unlike a portable compact disc player, it can be jostled and bumped without skipping a single note. ...
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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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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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