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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) »
- 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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Album-equivalent unit
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Anonymous (hacker group)
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Ars Technica
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Atlantic Records
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".
See Recording Industry Association of America and Audio Home Recording Act
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Barratry (common law)
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Billboard (magazine)
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Brad Templeton
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Capitol Records
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Cary Sherman
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
See Recording Industry Association of America and CBS News
Center for Copyright Information
The Center for Copyright Information (CCI) is an American organization focused on advocacy and initiatives in support of copyright law.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Center for Copyright Information
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Chief executive officer
Collective rights management
Collective rights management is the licensing of copyright and related rights by organisations acting on behalf of rights owners.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Collective rights management
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Columbia Records
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Compact disc
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Computerworld
Copyright infringement
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Copyright infringement
Copyright Remedy Clarification Act
The Copyright Remedy Clarification Act (CRCA) is a United States copyright law that attempted to abrogate sovereign immunity of states for copyright infringement.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Copyright Remedy Clarification Act
DeCSS
DeCSS is one of the first free computer programs capable of decrypting content on a commercially produced DVD video disc.
See Recording Industry Association of America and DeCSS
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Denial-of-service attack
Diamond Multimedia
Diamond Multimedia is an American company that specializes in many forms of multimedia technology.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Diamond Multimedia
Digital Audio Tape
Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Digital Audio Tape
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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).
See Recording Industry Association of America and Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Digital recording
Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999
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.
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Disney Music Group
East Carolina University
East Carolina University (ECU) is a public university in Greenville, North Carolina, United States.
See Recording Industry Association of America and East Carolina University
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Electronic Frontier Foundation
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Federal Communications Commission
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Federal judiciary of the United States
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and First Amendment to the United States Constitution
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Fork (software development)
GitHub
GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.
See Recording Industry Association of America and GitHub
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Goddard Lieberson
Hilary Rosen
Hilary Rosen (born 1958) is the former head of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
See Recording Industry Association of America and Hilary Rosen
Intellectual property
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Intellectual property
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
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).
See Recording Industry Association of America and International Intellectual Property Alliance
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and IP address
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and ITunes Store
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and John Esposito (music executive)
Julie Swidler
Julie Greifer Swidler is an American attorney and music industry executive.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Julie Swidler
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Kazaa
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Latin music
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Library (computing)
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).
See Recording Industry Association of America and List of largest recorded music markets
List of Warner Music Group labels
Warner Music Group (WMG) owns, has a joint share, or is associated with the record labels listed here.
See Recording Industry Association of America and List of Warner Music Group labels
Lobbying
Lobbying is a form of advocacy, which lawfully attempts to directly influence legislators or government officials, such as regulatory agencies or judiciary.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Lobbying
Michael L. Nash
Michael L. Nash is a media executive and the executive vice president and chief digital officer at Universal Music Group.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Michael L. Nash
Michele Anthony
Michele Anthony is an American music industry executive and the Executive Vice President of Universal Music Group.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Michele Anthony
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Microsoft
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and MiniDisc
Mitch Bainwol
Mitchell Burt Bainwol (born March 2, 1959) is an American lobbyist.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Mitch Bainwol
Mitch Glazier
Mitch Glazier (born 1966) is an American lawyer and lobbyist.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Mitch Glazier
Motown
Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Motown
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Music Canada
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Music industry
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Music recording certification
Napster
Napster was a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application primarily associated with digital audio file distribution.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Napster
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Non-fungible token
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Nonesuch Records
Open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Open source
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and OpenSecrets
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Operation Payback
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Parental Advisory
Phynd
Phynd (Find) is a LAN-indexing search engine used to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing over a local-area network.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Phynd
Public Citizen
Public Citizen is an American non-profit, progressive consumer rights advocacy group, and think tank based in Washington, D.C..
See Recording Industry Association of America and Public Citizen
RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
See Recording Industry Association of America and RCA Records
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Recording Artists' Coalition
Repository (version control)
In version control systems, a repository is a data structure that stores metadata for a set of files or directory structure.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Repository (version control)
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and RIAA certification
RIAA equalization
RIAA equalization is a specification for the recording and playback of phonograph records, established by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
See Recording Industry Association of America and RIAA equalization
Rio PMP300
The Rio PMP300 is one of the first portable consumer MP3 digital audio players, and the first commercially successful one.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Rio PMP300
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
See Recording Industry Association of America and San Francisco
Settlement (litigation)
In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Settlement (litigation)
Slyck.com
Slyck was a website that produced and aggregated file sharing news stories, as well as offering a forum for users.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Slyck.com
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Sony Music
Spamigation
Spamigation is mass litigation conducted to intimidate large numbers of people.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Spamigation
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Spanish language
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Spoofing (anti-piracy measure)
Spotify
Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Spotify
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Strategic lawsuit against public participation
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Students for Free Culture
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Supreme Court of the United States
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and The East Carolinian
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
See Recording Industry Association of America and The New York Times
The Register
The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.
See Recording Industry Association of America and The Register
Tom Silverman
Tom Silverman is an American entertainment executive.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Tom Silverman
Tommy Boy Records
Tommy Boy Records is an American independent record label and multimedia brand founded in 1981 by Tom Silverman.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Tommy Boy Records
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Trade association
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and United States
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Universal Music Group
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Warner Music Group
Warner Records
Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Warner Records
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Washington, D.C.
Will Tanous
William Lloyd Tanous is a French-born record executive.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Will Tanous
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Witness summons
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Work for hire
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and XM Satellite Radio
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
See Recording Industry Association of America and YouTube
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.
See Recording Industry Association of America and Youtube-dl
See also
1952 establishments in the United States
- 645th Aeronautical Systems Group
- A Christian Ministry in the National Parks
- Ace Books
- American Bar Foundation
- American Counseling Association
- American Name Society
- American Sephardi Federation
- Arca Foundation
- Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ
- Back to the Bible Way
- Charles Lathrop Parsons Award
- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation
- Classic Car Club of America
- Comic Media
- Compassion International
- Constitution Party (United States, 1952)
- Diabetes (journal)
- Dynamic Science Fiction
- Filmways
- Infantry Shoulder Cord
- Kent (cigarette)
- Kingsley-International Pictures
- Modern Jazz Quartet
- NCTA (association)
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- National Conference of State Societies
- National Day of Prayer
- National Security Agency
- National Solar Observatory
- National Student Nurses' Association
- Polish Combatants' Association (United States)
- Project Blue Book
- Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service
- Recording Industry Association of America
- Seven Seas Cruising Association
- State Department Panel of Consultants on Disarmament
- The Gospel Harmony Boys
- United States Army Special Forces
References
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