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Recording Industry Association of America

Index Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. [1]

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  1. 102 relations: Album-equivalent unit, Anonymous (hacker group), Ars Technica, Atlantic Records, Audio Home Recording Act, Barratry (common law), Billboard (magazine), Brad Templeton, Capitol Records, Cary Sherman, CBS News, Center for Copyright Information, Chief executive officer, Collective rights management, Columbia Records, Compact disc, Computerworld, Copyright infringement, Copyright Remedy Clarification Act, DeCSS, Denial-of-service attack, Diamond Multimedia, Digital Audio Tape, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital recording, Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999, Disney Music Group, East Carolina University, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Communications Commission, Federal judiciary of the United States, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fork (software development), GitHub, Goddard Lieberson, Hilary Rosen, Intellectual property, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, International Intellectual Property Alliance, IP address, ITunes Store, John Esposito (music executive), Julie Swidler, Kazaa, Latin music, Library (computing), List of largest recorded music markets, List of Warner Music Group labels, Lobbying, Michael L. Nash, ... Expand index (52 more) »

  2. 1952 establishments in the United States

Album-equivalent unit

The album-equivalent unit, or album equivalent, is a measurement unit in music industry to define the consumption of music that equals the purchase of one album copy.

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Anonymous (hacker group)

Anonymous is a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement primarily known for its various cyberattacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations and the Church of Scientology.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.

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Audio Home Recording Act

The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA) amended the United States copyright law by adding Chapter 10, "Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media".

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Barratry (common law)

Barratry (from Old French ("deceit, trickery")) is a legal term that, at common law, described a criminal offense committed by people who are overly officious in instigating or encouraging prosecution of groundless litigation, or who bring repeated or persistent acts of litigation for the purposes of profit or harassment.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Brad Templeton

Brad Templeton (born June 1960 near Toronto) is a Canadian software developer, internet entrepreneur, online community pioneer, publisher of news, comedy, science fiction and e-books, writer, photographer, civil rights advocate, futurist, public speaker, educator and self-driving car consultant.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Cary Sherman

Cary Sherman is the former Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, an organization representing the nation’s major music labels.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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The Center for Copyright Information (CCI) is an American organization focused on advocacy and initiatives in support of copyright law.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Collective rights management

Collective rights management is the licensing of copyright and related rights by organisations acting on behalf of rights owners.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

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Computerworld

Computerworld (abbreviated as CW) is an ongoing decades-old professional publication which in 2014 "went digital." Its audience is information technology (IT) and business technology professionals, and is available via a publication website and as a digital magazine.

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Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to produce derivative works.

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The Copyright Remedy Clarification Act (CRCA) is a United States copyright law that attempted to abrogate sovereign immunity of states for copyright infringement.

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DeCSS

DeCSS is one of the first free computer programs capable of decrypting content on a commercially produced DVD video disc.

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Denial-of-service attack

In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network.

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Diamond Multimedia

Diamond Multimedia is an American company that specializes in many forms of multimedia technology.

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Digital Audio Tape

Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987.

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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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Digital recording

In digital recording, an audio or video signal is converted into a stream of discrete numbers representing the changes over time in air pressure for audio, or chroma and luminance values for video.

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The Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 is a United States law that increased the possible civil penalties for copyright infringement.

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Disney Music Group

Disney Music Group (DMG) is the music recording and publishing arm of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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East Carolina University

East Carolina University (ECU) is a public university in Greenville, North Carolina, United States.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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Federal judiciary of the United States

The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government.

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

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Fork (software development)

In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software.

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GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.

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Goddard Lieberson

Goddard Lieberson (April 5, 1911 – May 29, 1977) was the president of Columbia Records from 1956 to 1971, and again from 1973 to 1975.

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Hilary Rosen

Hilary Rosen (born 1958) is the former head of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.

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International Federation of the Phonographic Industry

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide.

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International Intellectual Property Alliance

The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) is a coalition of seven trade associations representing American companies that produce copyright-protected material, including computer software, films, television programs, music, books, and journals (electronic and print media).

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IP address

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music.

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John Esposito (music executive)

John Esposito is an American music executive who is the current chairman and CEO of Warner Music Nashville, a country music label group.

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Julie Swidler

Julie Greifer Swidler is an American attorney and music industry executive.

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Kazaa

Kazaa Media Desktop. (once stylized as "KaZaA", but later usually written "Kazaa") was a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd.

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Latin music

Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America, which encompasses Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino population in Canada and the United States, as well as music that is sung in either Spanish and/or Portuguese.

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Library (computing)

In computer science, a library is a collection of read-only resources that is leveraged during software development to implement a computer program.

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List of largest recorded music markets

The world's largest recorded music markets are listed annually by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

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List of Warner Music Group labels

Warner Music Group (WMG) owns, has a joint share, or is associated with the record labels listed here.

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Lobbying

Lobbying is a form of advocacy, which lawfully attempts to directly influence legislators or government officials, such as regulatory agencies or judiciary.

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Michael L. Nash

Michael L. Nash is a media executive and the executive vice president and chief digital officer at Universal Music Group.

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Michele Anthony

Michele Anthony is an American music industry executive and the Executive Vice President of Universal Music Group.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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MiniDisc

MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio.

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Mitch Bainwol

Mitchell Burt Bainwol (born March 2, 1959) is an American lobbyist.

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Mitch Glazier

Mitch Glazier (born 1966) is an American lawyer and lobbyist.

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Motown

Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group.

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Music Canada

Music Canada is a non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 in Toronto to represent the interests of companies that record, manufacture, produce, and distribute music in Canada.

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Music industry

The music industry refers to the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Napster

Napster was a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application primarily associated with digital audio file distribution.

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Non-fungible token

A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier that is recorded on a blockchain and is used to certify ownership and authenticity.

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Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Records (formerly Warner Bros. Records), and based in New York City.

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Open source

Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution.

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OpenSecrets

OpenSecrets is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that tracks and publishes data on campaign finance and lobbying, including a revolving door database which documents the individuals who have worked in both the public sector and lobbying firms and may have conflicts of interest.

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Operation Payback

Operation Payback was a coordinated, decentralized group of attacks on high-profile opponents of Internet piracy by Internet activists using the "Anonymous" moniker.

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Parental Advisory

Parental Advisory (short for Parental Advisory Explicit Content) is a voluntary music warning label placed on audio recordings in recognition of inappropriate references, such as violence, sexual content or profanity.

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Phynd

Phynd (Find) is a LAN-indexing search engine used to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing over a local-area network.

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Public Citizen

Public Citizen is an American non-profit, progressive consumer rights advocacy group, and think tank based in Washington, D.C..

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RCA Records

RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Recording Artists' Coalition

The Recording Artists' Coalition (RAC) is an American music industry organization that represents recording artists, and attempts to defend their rights and interests.

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Repository (version control)

In version control systems, a repository is a data structure that stores metadata for a set of files or directory structure.

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RIAA certification

In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) operates an awards program based on the certified number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.

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RIAA equalization

RIAA equalization is a specification for the recording and playback of phonograph records, established by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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Rio PMP300

The Rio PMP300 is one of the first portable consumer MP3 digital audio players, and the first commercially successful one.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Settlement (litigation)

In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins.

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Slyck.com

Slyck was a website that produced and aggregated file sharing news stories, as well as offering a forum for users.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Spamigation

Spamigation is mass litigation conducted to intimidate large numbers of people.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Spoofing (anti-piracy measure)

Spoofing, or decoying, is the practice of inundating online networks with bogus or incomplete files of the same name in an effort to reduce copyright infringement on file sharing networks.

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Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.

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Strategic lawsuit against public participation

Strategic lawsuits against public participation (also known as SLAPP suits or intimidation lawsuits), or strategic litigation against public participation, are lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.

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Students for Free Culture

Students for Free Culture, formerly known as FreeCulture.org, is an international student organization working to promote free culture ideals, such as cultural participation and access to information.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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The East Carolinian

The East Carolinian is the campus newspaper of East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, United States, and is entirely student-run.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Register

The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.

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Tom Silverman

Tom Silverman is an American entertainment executive.

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Tommy Boy Records

Tommy Boy Records is an American independent record label and multimedia brand founded in 1981 by Tom Silverman.

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Trade association

A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Dutch–American multinational music corporation under Dutch law.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group Corp., commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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Warner Records

Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Will Tanous

William Lloyd Tanous is a French-born record executive.

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Witness summons

A subpoena (also subpœna, supenna or subpena) or witness summons is a writ issued by a government agency, most often a court, to compel testimony by a witness or production of evidence under a penalty for failure.

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Work for hire

A work made for hire (work for hire or WFH), in copyright law in the United States, is a work that is subject to copyright and is created by employees as part of their job or some limited types of works for which all parties agree in writing to the WFH designation.

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XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio (XM) was one of the three satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Holdings.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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Youtube-dl

youtube-dl is a free and open source software tool for downloading video and audio from YouTube and over 1,000 other video hosting websites.

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See also

1952 establishments in the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America

Also known as R.I.A.A., RIAA, RIAA affiliated music artists, Record Industry Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Recording Industry of America, Riaa.com, The Recording Industry Association of America, The Recording Industry Association of America, Inc..

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