The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand. Membership of RIANZ is open to any record label operating in New Zealand, and is dominated by the American and UK owned "Big Four" (EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner Music) who have four of the five full memberships to the RIANZ. RIANZ has an additional 53 affiliate members.

The RIANZ was instrumental in attempting to introduce a possible version of Section 92A Copyright Act. The amendment would have required ISPs in New Zealand to disconnect users accused but not convicted of downloading copyrighted material - the first law of its type in the world. The amendment and consequently the RIANZ's actions have been widely criticised. ISPs described the law as "a deeply flawed law that undermines the fundamental rights and simply will not work", while thousands of artists have joined the Campaign for Fair Copyright voicing their "disappointment" at the RIANZ stance. However, the version was ultimately dropped, and Section 92A of the Copyright Act has now been replaced by Section 122A the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 which came in force from 1 September 2011.

Joseph "Joe" Satriani (born July 15, 1956) is an American instrumental rock guitarist of Italian origin, multi-instrumentalist and multiple Grammy Award nominee. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, and some of his former students have achieved fame such as Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan and Alex Skolnick. Satriani has been a driving force in music credited to other musicians throughout his career, as a founder of the G3 tour, as well as performing in various positions with other musicians.

In 1988, Satriani was recruited by Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for Jagger's first solo tour. In 1994, Satriani was the lead guitarist for Deep Purple. Satriani worked with a range of guitarists, including Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Eric Johnson, Larry LaLonde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Brian May, Patrick Rondat, Andy Timmons, Paul Gilbert, Adrian Legg, and Robert Fripp through the annual G3 Jam Concerts. He is currently the lead guitarist for the supergroup Chickenfoot. Since 1988, Satriani has been using his own signature guitar, the Ibanez JS Series, which is sold in music stores worldwide.

Rajat Tokas (Hindi: रजत टोकस) (born July 19, 1991) is an Indian television actor. He achieved recognition by playing the lead role in an Indian television series, Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan and Dharam Veer.

Rajat Tokas was born in Munirka, South Delhi to Ramvir tokas. He studied in the Hope Hall Foundation School, R. K. Puram, Delhi. Due to his hectic schedule as an actor, he began studying through correspondence. His Father encouraged him to pursue acting as his career.

Rajat was earlier seen in some of the movies like Prerna, Godh Liye Dada Ji, Sajiv-Nirjiv, Kathputali, W.H.O, and Stumped as junior artists in petty roles.

When Rajat started showing some interest in Acting field. His father Ramvir Tokas left his job for his son's career. He was 15 when he went along with his dad to Mumbai to give auditions for Sagar Arts Sai Baba. He got casted in the auditions and went to Baroda. He played the role of Tantya (Sai Baba's brother). The Sagar's then decided to launch their new serial - Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan on STAR Plus. They had decided that Rajat Tokas would play the role of Teen Prithviraj Chauhan for only a few episodes. The Sagar's then decided to increase his role. Rajat had aimed for a long inning. He played the role for more than 1 year, 200 episodes. He has a huge fan following. He learnt Sword Fighting and Karate especially for his role as Prithviraj Chauhan.