Mitch Bainwol
Mitch Bainwol
Mitchell Burt Bainwolis a policial lobbyist who currently serves as the current chairman of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and was the chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of Americafrom 2003until 2011. Prior to filling this position, he worked for 25 years in politics and federal policy-making. In August of 2011, Cary Sherman succeeded Bainwol as chairman and CEO of the RIAA, and Bainwol became the CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers...
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The theft of music in its various forms continues to exact a heavy price. The piracy problem on college campuses is evolving and presenting new challenges.
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This is a chapter that ends on a high note for the recording industry, the tech community and music fans and consumers everywhere. At the end of the day, this is about our ability to invest in new music, ... An online marketplace populated by legitimate services allows us to do just that.
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This settlement brings to a close an incredibly significant chapter in the story of digital music. This is a chapter that ends on a high note for the recording industry, the tech community and music fans and consumers everywhere.
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We know that file sharing began around the same time that our losses began.
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We've got to find a way to harmonize this so it's rational. There are going to be new technologies that are great for fans, and great for the entire music world, but they're all operating on different platforms, and all operating on different rule sets.
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We said for a long time, and no one believed us, that we were serious that peer to peer could play a role in the distribution of music. Our beef was not with the technology but with the people who wanted to use our products as start-up capital.
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Today's action speaks loudly to the will of the administration to press the Chinese government for key reforms that will help China meet its international obligations.
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We are raising the issue with Congress that whatever the platform is, whether it's over-the-air digital radio, HD radio or satellite radio, that there's a new functionality coming where there will be a convergence of platforms, ... There's the capability to cherry-pick songs, store them in players and avoid a purchase. That's a concern to creators.
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We're happy we're in the right business at the right time to serve.
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With the passage of this resolution in the Senate, the entire U.S. Congress has made clear that the Russian government must significantly step up the fight against piracy as a condition for both its acceptance into the WTO and for receiving preferential trade benefits from the United States.
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We're trying to send a strong message that you are not anonymous when you participate in peer-to-peer file-sharing and that the illegal distribution of copyrighted music has consequences, ... And as this case illustrates, parents need to be aware of what their children are doing on their computers.
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The creative community always responds to a tragedy, ... I don't think Katrina changed the instinctive reaction. But the fact that it was New Orleans, which is so important to the music world, did touch a chord in a particularly poignant way. People rallied immediately, within hours. All the labels wanted to play ball.
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The creative community always responds to a tragedy. I don't think Katrina changed the instinctive reaction. But the fact that it was New Orleans, which is so important to the music world, did touch a chord in a particularly poignant way. People rallied immediately, within hours. All the labels wanted to play ball.
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The debate isn't digital versus plastic. It isn't old versus new,