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9:50 AM ET, July 21, 2022

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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:

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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

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Dylan Smith / Digital Music News:

Warner Music Group becomes the first major label to adopt SoundCloud's user-centric payouts instead of the pro rata model used by Spotify — About three months after celebrating the anniversary of its fan-powered royalty model, SoundCloud has officially inked a global licensing deal with Warner Music Group.

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Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:

Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and others register for a license in Indonesia under which they might have to censor content and hand over users' data — Meta, TikTok and Twitter among groups to register for licences under which authorities can censor platforms

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Rebecca Klar / The Hill:

A US House panel votes 53-2 to advance the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, which would affect ad targeting and how tech companies use people's data — A House panel advanced a comprehensive data privacy bill in a 53-2 bipartisan vote Wednesday, pushing forward legislation that aims …

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:

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Ashley Wong / New York Times:

Hell Gate, a New York City news outlet owned by five journalists, launches a subscription for $6.99 per month or $70 per year to keep the website afloat — After years of being put through the wringer of New York City media, five journalists created Hell Gate, the blog-style news site run on their terms.

Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia:

Baidu's video streaming service iQiyi signs a content deal with Douyin, TikTok's sister app in China, ending a long dispute over alleged copyright infringement — Douyin users will be able to use iQiyi content to make their own short videos — Under a new agreement, users of short video platform Douyin …

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Knight Foundation:

The Knight Foundation awards $20K grants to 25 newsrooms to upgrade their digital publishing tools; the program has given $1.5M to 75 newsrooms over three years — Twenty-five newsrooms will receive $20,000 grants to deploy an improved publishing solution, in third year of Knight initiative in partnership with News Revenue Hub

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