Success Quote by Hilary Rosen

Cooperation, here, is less a kumbaya sentiment than a strategic pivot: Hilary Rosen is sketching a version of the RIAA that wants to be seen not as the music industrys scold, but as its systems integrator. The phrasing does a lot of quiet image repair. "Very real areas" signals seriousness and urgency, a pre-emptive rebuttal to anyone who hears "working together" as PR fog. Then she itemizes: "public policy", "enforcement", "facilitate new business opportunities". That order matters. Policy sets the rules, enforcement polices the borders, business opportunities are the legitimizing payoff. By the time she gets to growth, the listener has been walked through why muscle and regulation are supposedly in service of innovation, not punishment.

The subtext is that the RIAA, long cast as the antagonist in the Napster-to-iTunes era, is trying to reposition itself inside a broader coalition: tech platforms, lawmakers, rights-holders, maybe even consumers. "Working together" is a euphemism for negotiating power - aligning incentives so the industry can extract value from digital distribution without looking like its merely litigating the future into submission.

"The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that" is the tell: an admission that the old model (reactive lawsuits, cultural finger-wagging) wasnt enough. Rosen is framing involvement as maturity and pragmatism, but also staking a claim to the table where standards, licensing norms, and enforcement regimes are decided. Its an argument for relevance: if you cant stop change, you help write the terms under which it happens.