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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. 

If you’re a SiriusXM or Pandora fan like us, it’s likely you’ve faced this situation: you’re in the car on a long drive, or you’re reading or making dinner, and the mood for music strikes you. You type in to your Pandora app an artist you like, or you start channel flipping through SiriusXM’s offerings. 50s on 5. 60s on 6. Motown station. You have a hankering for Aretha Franklin music (and similar songs), so you create an Aretha channel on Pandora. This genre of music may be decades old, but it still makes you groove or helps make a long drive bearable. And guess what? Pandora and SiriusXM know that too – after all, that’s why they offer those stations.

RIAA Chairman & CEO Cary Sherman submitted written testimony to the U.S House Judiciary IP Subcommittee regarding its hearing on the notice and takedown provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. See here for his comments.

What better occasion than Free Speech Week to pause for a moment to recognize the incredible importance of free expression, especially to music makers. We don’t take it for granted. Lyrics mean different things to different people. And music, perhaps more than any other content, is highly subject to interpretation. We make and use music to express our joy and anger, to protest and to empower. Throughout history, there have been many efforts to squelch selected songs based on some people’s interpretation of another person’s music.

It was announced today that Victoria Espinel, the inaugural White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), has stepped down.

Today the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) implemented changes to its gross domestic product (GDP) calculation, including counting – for the first time ever – the money that is invested in recorded music and other creative works.

WASHINGTON – The White House today announced its “2013 Joint Strategic Plan for Intellectual Property Enforcement.”  Below is a comment from Cary Sherman, Chairman and CEO, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Apple’s announcement of the launch of its iTunes Radio service is understandably generating a lot of attention on the expanding number of streaming services and what it might mean and say about the online music marketplace. Here are some initial thoughts from my perspective.

At a recent Library of Congress event celebrating World Intellectual Property Day, U.S. House Judiciary Chairman Goodlatte announced his intention to hold a series of hearings on copyright law reform. To be sure, we welcome a public conversation about modernizing the copyright laws.