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Jan 2, 2019 · Washington, D.C., January 2, 2019 – The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today announced that Mitch Glazier has formally taken office as Chairman and CEO of the recording industry trade group. Representing “new leadership for a new era” of the music industry, the previously-announced succession also includes the promotion ...
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- Sound Recording Act of 1971
- Copyright Act of 1976
- ‘Parental Advisory’ Label, 1985
- Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995
- MGM Studios v. Grokster, 2005
- Music Modernization Act, 2018
For decades, recordings were only protected by state statutes. This law, which the RIAA pushed, offered federal protection to recordings made after the following year.
The most important copyright law in the latter half of the 20th century codified fair use, extended the term of protection and eliminated the need to register works with the U.S. Copyright Office (although rights holders still need to do so in order to be eligible for statutory damages). The RIAA played a significant role in the debate.
Faced with the threatening prospect of legal regulation, the RIAA worked with the National Parent Teacher Association and the Parents Music Resource Center to develop a label that identified music that could be inappropriate for children.
Traditional radio stations pay royalties to publishers and songwriters, but not labels or artists. Recording rights holders do get paid by satellite radio, cable TV music channels and online streaming services — including Spotify and Apple Music — because of this law, for which the RIAA lobbied. (Without it, labels would have to make the case that ...
A 2001 appeals court decision held that Napster could be found liable for secondary copyright infringement, but the second generation of file-sharing services had been designed differently. This unanimous Supreme Court decision, in a case brought by the music and film industries, held that Grokster and Streamcast, the company behind the Morpheus so...
Think of this as the music industry’s “posse cut” since several sectors of the business worked together to push it forward. It changed the way mechanical royalties are collected and distributed, adjusted some rate-setting standards and — most important for labels and artists — gave federal copyright protection to recordings made before 1972. This s...
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Jan 2, 2019 · Mitch Glazier, RIAA. Comments are closed. In a succession first announced nearly two years ago, Mitch Glazier has formally taken office as Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry...
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Mitch Glazier (born 1966) is an American lawyer and lobbyist. He is the Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Education and career. Glazier received a B.S. in social policy from Northwestern University in 1987 and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School.
