The RIAA has been working behind the scenes here for several months to obtain copyright protection measures for sound recordings transmitted vai high-definition digital radio.
RIAA chairman/CEO Mitch Bainwol says he is in favor of the service. But the trade group has major concerns that second-generation receiver-recorders now being planned by consumer electronics manufacturers could allow consumers to “cherry-pick” and copy individual tracks, which could end up being traded on file-sharing services.
“You’ll have a situation where radio isn’t radio anymore, but a method for acquisition and redistribution without payment,” Bainwol says.
Such use, he says, would be devastating to an already hard-hit industry. “You’ll have a situation that undermines the future investment in music and funding of new art,” he says.
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