Word: gortikov
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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...religion what a free agent is to football") to put on an audiovisual show of rock naughtiness in Washington in May. Capital movers and shakers shifted in their seats while Ling read from the works of Judas Priest. Not long after, the women heard from RIAA President Stanley Gortikov. He announced that record companies would, at their own discretion, put warning labels on certain albums: PARENTAL GUIDANCE--EXPLICIT LYRICS...
...before I would do it." Some observers of the music business believe that the RIAA acquiesced to label warnings because it did not want to ruffle feathers while lobbying for passage of a bill that would place a surcharge on the manufacture of home recording equipment and blank tape. Gortikov denies such charges and instead talks generally about "de facto censorship" and "the possible dilution of rights." Ling, now a consultant for the P.M.R.C., asserts that "any artist who is a true artist won't care about a rating." Singers and songwriters have other ideas. "I feel more akin...
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