RIAA launches GRid to track online music sales

News General United States 11 FEB 2003
RIAA launches GRid to track online music sales
US: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) launched the Global Release Identifier (GRid) electronic ID tags on 10 February 2003. They are designed to track online music sales to compensate songwriters and musicians as more of their work becomes available on the Web. GRid is similar to the UPC barcode found on a cassette tape or CD in stores and is designed to track each time an online retailer, record label or distributor sells a

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