Ron Stone

Ron Stone (born March 15, 1944) is an American personal manager, and musician's advocate. Stone began his career during music’s ‘golden age’ in 1968 at Geffen and Roberts Management alongside industry names such as Tom Cochrane.
With Joss Stone.

Stone leveraged his stature in the entertainment industry during the Internet boom to be a spokesperson for the rights of artists whose intellectual property and content were being distributed freely via peer to peer applications like Napster.

Stone’s broad knowledge of the Internet and the challenges that new technologies pose to the music business led him to consult on digital and copyright issues to the RIAA. Stone along with Noah Stone formed the first artists driven coalition against piracy, Artists Against Piracy. Stone was also instrumental in the formation of The Recording Artists Coalition.