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10 years ago this week, the Supreme Court made a historic ruling which decided that companies which actively help users steal music via their sites could be held responsible for copyright theft.

Apple’s entrance into the subscription streaming market made a predictable splash.

A few notes on our recently-released revenue and shipment data on the U.S. music business.

Today we released our report on recorded music revenues and shipment information for 2014.

I respect David and his accomplishments in the music space, but his blog “The Artist’s Share” misses the mark. The piece wrongly assumed that labels pay royalties to artists and simply keep the rest. This is not the case. Let’s take a closer look at the value labels actually bring to the table.

Touts Contribution of Major Labels In New Report The House Judiciary this morning convenes a second subcommittee hearing on music licensing.  Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), will testify. 

Proposal to simplify licensing would benefit music fans and mean market-based rates for all music creators, says RIAA in filing with U.S. Copyright Office "Modernizing the licensing system for musical works is a win for everyone...must be a collaborative exercise," says RIAA CEO

Nielsen and Billboard recently released topline sales data on the U.S. music industry for 2013. Unlike previous years, there is a strong – and we think well deserved – emphasis on streaming music listening. Still, we believe there is more to the story, as the streaming component provides important context for a number of reasons.

Remarks come as RIAA hits 35 million takedown requests to Google for illegal content

Asks Congress to facilitate discussion on DMCA in testimony before House IP panel