Cary Sherman
Cary Sherman
Cary H. Sherman is an American lawyer and lobbyist. He has been the Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of Americasince August 2011. He served as President of the RIAA from 2001 to 2011...
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We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer demand, not the value. As it is, we think streams are under-monetized, and we are complaining loudly about that. If the value of a stream changes, we won't alter the count because we don't want to alter the history of the program because that would impact these milestone achievements.
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There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.
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10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years later, about 30 percent were eligible. With the new rules, we figure about 40 percent of the top 200 best-sellers for the year will be eligible. We were very cautious in our approach to changing how we calculate what is eligible because the integrity of the process is our foremost consideration. It's difficult to get certified sales awards, and it's a big deal and we didn't want there to be a huge change in how many would be eligible.
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Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.
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Whether or not it is lawful for users to share music one on one, it is entirely different for a commercial entity to create a business that induces users to do that,
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Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation. But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action.
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We are thrilled to see the number of schools offering legitimate services more than triple in the last year, and (we) remain hopeful that these partnerships will continue to flourish. At the same time, complacency looms as a constant threat to the tremendous progress we have made. As the landscape changes, so must the anti-piracy programs within the university community. There is much promise in the coming years, but our work is far from done.
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We're willing to hold out our version of an olive branch.
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The problem we had with the RIO was that it could exacerbate the MP3 piracy problem by encouraging more people to post illegal MP3 files and more people to download them.
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The message to illegal file sharers should be as clear as ever -- we can and will continue to bring lawsuits on a regular basis against those who illegally distribute copyrighted music,
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We cannot let this high-speed network become a zone of lawlessness where the normal rules don't apply.
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We cannot ignore the growing misuse of campus LAN systems or the toll this means of theft is taking on our industry. We hope administrators will take this opportunity to fully evaluate their systems and take action to stop theft by all means.
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We are appreciative of our partners in the university community and all they have done in recent years to tackle the problem of digital piracy at campuses across the country. Despite the progress achieved by our collaborative efforts, this remains an ever-evolving problem. We cannot ignore the growing misuse of campus local area network systems or the toll this means of theft is taking on our industry.
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We've had the impression that there has been a decrease in the amount of illegal activity on many campuses but not all, ... That's a reflection of the fact that a legitimate alternative is not sufficient in and of itself.