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1975, the additional requirement of 500,000 units sold was added for Gold albums. Reflecting growth in record sales, the Platinum award was added in 1976, for albums able to sell one million units, while singles qualify upon selling two million units. The Multi-Platinum award was introduced in 1984, signifying multiple Platinum levels of albums and singles. In 1989, the sales thresholds for singles were reduced to 500,000 for Gold and 1,000,000 for Platinum, reflecting a decrease in sales of singles. In 1992, RIAA began counting each disc in a multi-disc set as one unit toward certification. Reflecting additional growth in music sales, the Diamond award was instituted in 1999 for albums or singles selling ten million units. Because of these changes in criteria, the sales level associated with a particular award depends on when the award was made.
623:, and as such do not know any additional information about a person before they sue. After an Internet subscriber's identity is discovered, but before an individual lawsuit is filed, the subscriber is typically offered an opportunity to settle. The standard settlement is a payment to RIAA and an agreement not to engage in file sharing of music. Such suits are also usually on par with statutory damages of $ 750 per work, with the RIAA choosing the number of works it deems "reasonable". For cases that do not settle at this amount, the RIAA has gone to trial, seeking statutory damages from the jury, written into The 702:. Most of these suits were settled with monetary payments averaging $ 3,000. Kazaa publisher Sharman Networks responded with a lawsuit against RIAA, alleging that the terms of use of the network were violated and that unauthorized client software was used in the investigation to track down the individual file sharers (such as Kazaa Lite). An effort to throw out this suit was denied in January 2004, but that suit was settled in 2006. Sharman Networks agreed to a global settlement of litigation brought against it by the Motion Picture Association of America, the 734:
infringement. In addition, and perhaps most importantly for future cases, Baer said that Usenet.com cannot claim protection under the Sony Betamax decision. That ruling states that companies cannot be held liable for contributory infringement if the device they create is "capable of significant noninfringing uses". Furthermore, the parties had appealed to a federal court for damage assessments and awards, which could amount to several millions of dollars for the music industry.
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The association has commenced high-profile lawsuits against file-sharing service providers. Likewise, it has sued individuals suspected of file sharing, notably college students, parents of file-sharing children and at least one dead person. It is accused of employing techniques such as peer-to-peer
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Along with albums, digital albums, and singles, another classification of music release is called "video longform". This release format includes DVD and VHS releases. Further, certain live albums and compilation albums are counted. The certification criteria are slightly different from other styles.
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The RIAA operates an award program for albums that sell a large number of copies. The award was launched in 1958; originally, the requirement for a Gold single was one million units sold and a Gold album represented $ 1 million in sales (at wholesale value, around a third of the list price). In
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program" directed to ISPs and to colleges and universities, urging them to pass along letters to subscribers and students offering early settlements, prior to the disclosure of their identities. The settlement letters urged ISPs to preserve evidence for the benefit of the RIAA and invited the
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Mitch Glazier has been the RIAA's chairman and CEO since 2019. Glazier joined the RIAA 20 years ago and has played a role in the music industry's transition to streaming and "anywhere, anytime" access to music. He was the RIAA's senior executive vice president from 2011 to 2019 and served as
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On June 30, 2009, RIAA prevailed in its fight against Usenet.com, in a decision, that the U.S. District Judge Harold Baer of the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of the music industry on all its main arguments: that Usenet.com was guilty of direct, contributory, and vicarious
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from enabling its subscribers from playing songs they had recorded from its satellite broadcasts. It is also suing several Internet radio stations. Later, XM was forced to impose an industry fee upon subscribers. The fee still exists and has always been paid, in-full, directly to RIAA.
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The RIAA represents over 1,600 member labels, which are private corporate entities such as record labels and distributors, and collectively create and distribute about 90% of recorded music sold in the United States. The largest and most influential of the members are the "Big Three":
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On April 28, 2008, RIAA member labels sued Project Playlist, a web music search site, claiming that most of the sound recordings in the site's index of links are infringing. Project Playlist's website denies that any of the music is hosted on Project Playlist's own servers.
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The RIAA reports that total retail value of recordings sold by their members was $ 10.4 billion at the end of 2007, a decline from $ 14.6 billion in 1999. Estimated retail revenues from recorded music in the United States grew 11.4% in 2016 to $ 7.7 billion.
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and the likes also began to be counted towards the certification, using the formula of 100 streams being the equivalent of one download; thus, RIAA certification for singles no longer reflects actual sales. In the same year, the RIAA introduced the Latin Digital Award for
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In late 2008, they announced they would stop their lawsuits, and instead attempt to work with ISPs to persuade them to use a three-strike system for file sharing involving issuing two warnings and then cutting off Internet service after the third strike.
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In 1999, Mitch Glazier, a Congressional staff attorney, inserted, without public notice or comment, substantive language into the final markup of a "technical corrections" section of copyright legislation, classifying many music recordings as
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RIAA was formed in 1952. Its original mission was to administer recording copyright fees and problems, work with trade unions, and do research relating to the record industry and government regulations. Early RIAA standards included the
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RIAA opposes unauthorized sharing of its members' music. Studies conducted since the association began its campaign against peer-to-peer file-sharing have concluded that losses incurred per download range from negligible to moderate.
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students and subscribers to visit an RIAA website for the purpose of entering into a "discount settlement" payable by credit card. By March 2007, the focus had shifted from ISPs to colleges and universities.
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On October 12, 2007, RIAA sued Usenet.com seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the company from "aiding, encouraging, enabling, inducing, causing, materially contributing to, or otherwise facilitating"
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to persons dead or otherwise incapable of file-sharing. Two such examples include: a then-recently deceased 83-year-old woman an elderly computer novice, and a family reportedly without any computer at all.
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On October 26, 2010, RIAA members won a case against LimeWire, a P2P file-sharing network, for illegal distribution of copyrighted works. On October 29, in retaliation, riaa.org was taken offline via
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In 2004, the RIAA added a branch of certification for what it calls "digital" recordings, essentially referring to "recordings transferred to the recipient over a network" (such as those sold via the
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RIAA is heavily criticized for both policy and for their method of suing individuals for copyright infringement. Particularly strong critic-advocates are Internet-based, such as the
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oppose the ability of RIAA and other companies to "strip Internet users of anonymity without allowing them to challenge the order in court". Importantly,
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can be used by archivists to download videos of social injustice. According to Parker Higgins, former Director of Copyright Activism at the
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In February 2016, RIAA updated its certification criteria for album-level awards to combine streaming and track sales using the formula for
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In September 2003, RIAA filed suit in civil court against several private individuals who had shared large numbers of files with
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RIAA Adopts New Policy, offers Pre-Doe settlement option if ISP Holds Logs Longer, Asks ISP's to Correct Identification Mistakes
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Goddard Lieberson, head of Columbia Records, was elected president of the Record Industry Association of America yesterday. ...
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have declared that an IP address is not a person nor personal identifier. This weakened RIAA's ability to sue individuals.
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In February 2007, RIAA began sending letters accusing Internet users of sharing files and directing them to web site
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curve, the format of the stereophonic record groove and the dimensions of 33 1/3, 45, and 78 rpm records.
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and Flatlan, describing them as "a sophisticated network designed to enable widespread music thievery".
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RIAA's methods of identifying individual users had, in some rare cases, led to the issuing of
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RIAA names defendants based on ISP identification of the subscriber associated with an
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Within the major three music groups, it represents high-profile record labels such as
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Between 2001 and 2020, RIAA spent between $ 2.4 million and $ 6.5 million annually on
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as between $ 750 and $ 30,000 per work or $ 750 and $ 150,000 per work if "willful".
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executive vice president for public policy and industry relations from 2000 to 2011.
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in Spanish. As of 2016, the certification criteria for these recordings are:
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In October 1998, RIAA filed a lawsuit in the Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals in
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of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has called these types of lawsuits
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The 26-member board of directors is composed of these record executives:
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Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999
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In 2003, RIAA sued college student developers of LAN search engines
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Multi-Platinum: 2,000,000 units (increments of 1,000,000 thereafter)
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Multi-Platinum: 2,000,000 units (increments of 1,000,000 thereafter)
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On February 4, 2022, Mitch Glazier swiftly took action against
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Terry Hemmings (Provident Music Group/Sony Music Entertainment)
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as unconstitutional, while RIAA had argued the opposite view.
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Michele Ballantyne (Recording Industry Association of America)
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to monitor and review relevant laws, regulations, and policies
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The True Cost of Sound Recording Piracy to the U.S. Economy
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Efforts against alleged infringement of members' copyrights
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Since 2000, the RIAA also operates a similar program for
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1,500 on-demand audio and/or video streams from the album
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150 on-demand audio and/or video streams count as 1 unit
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Disco de Multi-Platino (Multi-Platinum): 120,000 copies
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International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
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For certification purposes, each unit may be one of:
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Victor Gonzalez (Universal Music Latin Entertainment)
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in the United States. RIAA also participates in the
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This request listed the 308:Deirdre McDonald (Sony Music Entertainment) 293:Sheldra Khahaifa (Sony Music Entertainment) 227:(Recording Industry Association of America) 3142: 3128: 3120: 2483:, by Joseph Palenchar, TWICE, May 22, 2006 1119:"RIAA Celebrates 50 Years Of Gold Records" 840:. The request cited the United States law 515:Disco de Platino (Platinum): 60,000 copies 31: 3233:Recording Industry Association of America 2474:XM Faces The Music In RIAA Copyright Suit 1867:(2007) IPI Policy Report 188, 2007, 6–10. 1371:Recording Industry Association of America 552:sale of a digital album or physical album 290:Kevin Kelleher (Sony Music Entertainment) 138:Recording Industry Association of America 33:Recording Industry Association of America 3248:1952 establishments in the United States 3151:Music organizations in the United States 2541:"RIAA triumphs in Usenet copyright case" 1474:Campbell, Michael; Brody, James (2008). 1413: 1411: 1409: 594:Trade group efforts against file sharing 305:Gabriela Maartinez (Warner Music Latina) 296:Dennis Kooker (Sony Music Entertainment) 170:RIAA says its current mission includes: 2001:Slattery, Brennon (December 19, 2008). 1667:from the original on September 22, 2018 1600:from the original on September 24, 2015 1346:from the original on September 28, 2017 1041: 1010:Global music industry market share data 927:Stanley Gortikov, 1972–1987 (president) 804:Youtube-dl § RIAA takedown request 3088:from the original on February 13, 2014 2933:"How to Not Get Sued For File Sharing" 2750:from the original on November 12, 2009 2578:from the original on September 4, 2017 2455:from the original on November 17, 2013 2280:from the original on December 11, 2008 2065:from the original on February 13, 2007 2009:from the original on February 15, 2012 1772: 1733:from the original on February 22, 2018 1687:"RIAA Debuts Album Award with Streams" 1631:from the original on February 22, 2014 1238:from the original on November 16, 2017 1132: 1059:from the original on November 12, 2015 888:Criticism of anti-file sharing efforts 844:. Critics of this action say that the 798:GitHub and youtube-dl takedown request 299:Eric Chopra (Sony Music Entertainment) 284:Jeff Harleston (Universal Music Group) 2805:from the original on October 24, 2020 2639:from the original on November 2, 2010 2547:from the original on January 11, 2012 2390:from the original on January 20, 2013 1697:from the original on February 2, 2016 302:Annie Lee (Interscope Geffen A&M) 7: 2692:from the original on August 30, 2010 2629:"RIAA and LimeWire Both are Offline" 2627:Thomas Mennecke (October 29, 2010). 2539:Sandoval, Greg (December 17, 2011). 2158:"Grandmother piracy lawsuit dropped" 1204:from the original on October 4, 2006 908:and implied they are done merely to 781:The "work made for hire" controversy 205:gold and platinum albums and singles 2339:"Recording industry battles piracy" 1903:Bangeman, Eric (February 4, 2005). 1574:from the original on March 11, 2014 248:Eric Berman (Universal Music Group) 2981:from the original on July 23, 2018 2774:Tooltip Public Law (United States) 2604:. 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Index

Recording Industry of America

Washington, D.C.
CEO
Mitch Glazier
riaa.com
trade organization
music recording industry
United States
Washington, D.C.
RIAA equalization
intellectual property rights
First Amendment
lobbying
collective rights management
certifying
gold and platinum albums and singles
Mitch Glazier
Michele Anthony
Michael L. Nash
Nonesuch Records
Disney Music Group
John Esposito
Warner Music Nashville
Tom Silverman
Tommy Boy Entertainment
Julie Swidler
Will Tanous
Sony Music Entertainment
Universal Music Group

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