RIAA And Its Role In Music Industry
RIAA is an acronym of Recording Industry Association of America. The association is a groping of various large companies who deal with the recording and music distribution in the United States of America. In the 1950's the primary concern of this association was maintaining the quality of music. However now the focus has shifted to the copyright protection which has become the main thrust area of the association.
Piracy in any form will not be allowed says RIAA. There had been reports about people making profitable use of copyright protected music. People are inclined to make multiple copies of music, after downloading them from the net. Later on the music is burnt into multiple CDs and sold commercially. Consequently the music industry sustains huge losses in revenue says RIAA. Everybody is barred from downloading any music without permission, and severe actions would be taken against the violators.
RIAA was forced to take the step of banning online music sharing services such as Napster. To prevent illegal and unauthorized download of music a set of laws was put in place. In the early 2000 severe laws were framed which sought to put restrictions on activities like illegal download or even purchasing pirated CD's. Youth were specifically marked by RIAA to be prevented from downloading music which was an infringement of copyrights.
Though RIAA is doing all in its power to protect misuse of music protected by copyright but the activities in this direction by RIAA are not welcome by everyone. Those opposing have brought out that number of CD's sold was more when online services such as Napster were available. Doubts have therefore been expressed about the stated aims of RIAA to help the artists and recording studios. RIAA has also been blamed for putting the artists to a loss who are paid very less payment for sale of CDs while they themselves make big gains.
RIAA does not disapprove of copying a CD for one's own use. Anybody after buying a CD legally can burn its copy. But when the burning is done for business then it is objectionable. RIAA will file lawsuits against people found making illegal copies for commercial use.
RIAA approves of latest tools and technologies which are emerging in the market and which may help in promotion of piracy of music. The organization is of the opinion that it is the people who should be blamed for misusing technology instead of other way round.
RIAA also holds firm opinion that pirated music hurts the artists, because their music is played on low grade CDs and without their official consent. The consent here refers to legally buying the music. "It makes people listen to poor quality music that was actually developed with so much hard work" is the firm opinion of RIAA.
Another area of activity by RIAA apart from copyright protection, is keeping track of sale of records. It also awards "Gold" or "Platinum" labels depending on the number of CDs sold. It may be summarized in the end that existence of RIAA has contributed much to keeping the business of music industry good and clean. - 18424
Piracy in any form will not be allowed says RIAA. There had been reports about people making profitable use of copyright protected music. People are inclined to make multiple copies of music, after downloading them from the net. Later on the music is burnt into multiple CDs and sold commercially. Consequently the music industry sustains huge losses in revenue says RIAA. Everybody is barred from downloading any music without permission, and severe actions would be taken against the violators.
RIAA was forced to take the step of banning online music sharing services such as Napster. To prevent illegal and unauthorized download of music a set of laws was put in place. In the early 2000 severe laws were framed which sought to put restrictions on activities like illegal download or even purchasing pirated CD's. Youth were specifically marked by RIAA to be prevented from downloading music which was an infringement of copyrights.
Though RIAA is doing all in its power to protect misuse of music protected by copyright but the activities in this direction by RIAA are not welcome by everyone. Those opposing have brought out that number of CD's sold was more when online services such as Napster were available. Doubts have therefore been expressed about the stated aims of RIAA to help the artists and recording studios. RIAA has also been blamed for putting the artists to a loss who are paid very less payment for sale of CDs while they themselves make big gains.
RIAA does not disapprove of copying a CD for one's own use. Anybody after buying a CD legally can burn its copy. But when the burning is done for business then it is objectionable. RIAA will file lawsuits against people found making illegal copies for commercial use.
RIAA approves of latest tools and technologies which are emerging in the market and which may help in promotion of piracy of music. The organization is of the opinion that it is the people who should be blamed for misusing technology instead of other way round.
RIAA also holds firm opinion that pirated music hurts the artists, because their music is played on low grade CDs and without their official consent. The consent here refers to legally buying the music. "It makes people listen to poor quality music that was actually developed with so much hard work" is the firm opinion of RIAA.
Another area of activity by RIAA apart from copyright protection, is keeping track of sale of records. It also awards "Gold" or "Platinum" labels depending on the number of CDs sold. It may be summarized in the end that existence of RIAA has contributed much to keeping the business of music industry good and clean. - 18424
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