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7:50 AM ET, January 17, 2023

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James Vincent / The Verge:
A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit  —  A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney …
Manori Ravindran / Variety:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video plans to part ways with Jeremy Clarkson after his already commissioned shows air in 2024, following his column about Meghan Markle  —  Amazon Prime Video is likely to be parting ways with Jeremy Clarkson mere weeks after his comments about Meghan Markle were published in British tabloid The Sun.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: CNN is considering hiring a comedian to host one of its prime-time shows; executives have floated Bill Maher, Trevor Noah, Jon Stewart, and others  —  CNN is considering hiring a comedian to host one of its prime time shows.  —  The “news entertainment” personality could fill …
Will Bedingfield / Wired:
The Overwatch League's path to profitability remains unclear given dwindling viewership, recent upheavals inside Activision Blizzard, and dampening esports hype  —  Activision-Blizzard's ambitious, much-hyped initiative has stalled.  Recent upheavals reveal the instability of esports—and a murky future for the league.
Morning Consult:
Survey: 46% of US podcast listeners prefer podcasts with video, 15% would pay $10-$25 to attend a live podcast event, 33% say YouTube is their favorite platform  —  YouTube is the most preferred podcast platform among regular listeners, ahead of Spotify and Apple, according to Morning Consult data
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast-owned Sky plans to offer WBD's streaming service Discovery+ to its subscribers in the UK and Ireland for free, saving them £6.99 or €6.99 per month  —  “We know value is incredibly important right now,” Comcast-owned Sky says. … “Sky Q, Sky Glass and Sky Stream customers …
Christina Carrega / Capital B:
Q&A with The Kansas City Defender founder Ryan Sorrell on the role of community-first Black news sites after police dismissed its report on three missing women  —  A 40-year-old white man was charged with kidnapping, rape, and assault when a 22-year-old Black woman said he held her captive for over a month.
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
A FIFA corruption trial set to start on Tuesday could implicate Fox Corp, as two ex-Fox executives accused of paying bribes to obtain broadcast rights testify  —  Two former executives are accused of paying bribes to obtain broadcast rights, including for the World Cup.  Testimony could reveal what the company knew.
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
CryptoSlam and Forkast.News plan to merge and become Forkast Labs, offering news and data for crypto investors; both are portfolio companies of Animoca Brands  —  Animoca Brands Corp. founder Yat Siu helped engineer the merger of two startups his firm backed, aiming to create a data …
Seb Joseph / Digiday:
Despite an ad slowdown, VaynerMedia estimates ad spending on TikTok was up 20% between the first three quarters of 2022 and Q4, expected to continue in 2023  —  Every downturn is good for someone.  Take TikTok, for instance.  —  Even as marketers continue to scrape dollars back wherever they can …
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Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
GB News Head of Television Helen Warner leaves the UK right-wing broadcaster after less than four months, becoming the latest executive to exit
Gina Chua / Semafor:
Singapore's The Straits Times said last week it overstated daily circulation by 85K-95K copies, or 10%-12% of reported totals, from September 2020 to March 2022
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's Reach told The Sunday Mirror and Sunday People staff that the two Sunday tabloids will begin sharing most of their content under a new cost-saving plan
Chris Kay / Bloomberg:
Reliance and Paramount's Viacom18 buys five-year rights to the new women's Indian Premier League cricket tournament for ~$116M after buying the men's IPL rights
New York Times:
As the number of shows and movies depicting real events has grown, screenwriters are taking liberties with the facts, often leading to public spats and lawsuits
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Gleb Bryanski / Reuters:
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Bloomberg:
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