Streaming Boosts Music Industry Revenues
A quick look on RIAA’s 2015 year-end music sales and shipments report reveals that streaming is now the largest revenue-generator for the U.S. recorded music...
RIAA Debuts New Album Award With Streams
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today announced a new Album Award methodology for its 58-year-old Gold & Platinum Program, the award for recognizing...
Aurous Shuts Down Following RIAA Lawsuit
Music service Aurous has agreed to cease all operations and to shut down in a settlement with major label plaintiffs Atlantic Records, Capitol Records, Sony...
Streaming Music Outsells Physical Media: RIAA
Revenues from streaming music services surpassed that of sales of physical media for the first time ever in 2015, according to data released by the...
RIAA Says U.S. Music Business Remained Relatively Flat in 2014
The U.S. music industry shrank 0.5 percent in 2014 as growth in streaming services failed to counter declining consumer spending on physical media. The RIAA...
U.S. Releases Trade Report On Worst Copyright Offenders
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has released its latest "Special 301 Report," an annual effort designed to highlight the...
Search Engines Encouraging Online Content Infringement: MPAA
A study released today by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) purporting search engines aid in consumer infringement of online content. The rsults of...
RIAA Says Google's Move to Demote Pirate Sites Doesn't Work
RIAA says that Google's move to demote sites with large amounts of piracy in its search engine in order to combat free access to copyrighted...
China, Russia and Ukraine Fail To Protect IP, RIAA Says
A report released by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) highlights 49 countries, in particular China, Russia and Ukraine, that fail to provide effective protection...
RIAA, Music Companies And Online Retailers Launch Music Web site
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with NARM, the music business association, and its affiliated organization digitalmusic.org, today jointly launched the "Why Music Matters"...
