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″Our members hope that this voluntary step by the recording industry will put the nightmare of governmental regulation behind us,″ said Mickey Granberg of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, the trade group of retailers and distributors.Ĭonceding ″this will not satisfy some people,″ Berman said most Americans favor a voluntary system of warning labels, contrary to the belief among some state legislators that ″a national movement of outraged parents is afoot.″ The complaints have generally been about rap music and heavy metal records.īy Berman’s count, 16 of the 21 state legislatures considering such bills have backed down since the industry announced plans in late March for a standard voluntary warning label.īerman’s trade association is still fighting mandatory labeling proposals in Missouri, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and Louisiana.
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Under a 1985 agreement between the record industry and the Parents’ Music Resource Center and the National PTA, which have led the fight against explicit lyrics, individual record companies were free to devise their own warning stickers or print lyrics on albums.īut erratic compliance and the lack of a standard label led to parental complaints, and bills were introduced in several states to require warning labels on albums containing explicit lyrics.
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People aged 10 through 19 accounted for nearly one-third of the $6.5 billion in total sales of recordings in 1988, according to industry figures. ″Now that we have agreed on this new logo, it will be up to parents to use it as they see fit.″ ″We believe the uniform logo will enhance the existing voluntary system and better respond to the legitimate concerns of parents,″ Berman told a news conference Wednesday. The label size will range from 1 1/2 inches by 1 inch for albums and CD long boxes to 1 inch by a half-inch for cassettes and CD cases. The decision of whether to affix the labels will be left up to the recording companies and their individual artists, said Jay Berman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America, whose members produce more than 90 percent of the records sold in the United States.īerman said the warning labels will begin appearing on the outer packaging, under the cellophane wrap, of potentially offensive records, cassettes and compact discs reaching retail music stores in July. The black-and-white stickers - reading ″PARENTAL ADVISORY - EXPLICIT LYRICS″ - will appear on the lower right-hand corner of the front of albums that might be objectionable because of lyrics dealing with sex, violence, suicide, drug abuse, bigotry or satanic worship. WASHINGTON (AP) _ The recording industry Wednesday unveiled a uniform warning label for albums with explicit lyrics and expressed hope that an improved voluntary system will halt campaigns in some states for mandatory labeling.