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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Over 8,500 authors sign an Authors Guild letter asking AI leaders to get consent and fairly compensate writers when using copyrighted material for generative AI — If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it …
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Sources: Vox Media plans to stop using Chorus, its CMS that the company licensed to external publishers from 2018 to 2022, and move its websites to WordPress — Vox Media, the parent company to websites such as New York Magazine, Eater and SB Nation, will no longer use Chorus …
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
G/O Media executives plan to publish more AI-generated stories, despite the blowback from employees and media circles for their first botched attempts — Why G/O Media thinks we should have more stories written by bots. — In early July, managers at G/O media, the digital publisher …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok debuts Elevate, a program to help rising music artists via amplification, early access to new features, and more, and signs a Warner Music licensing deal — TikTok is launching a new program that is designed to identify the next wave of rising artists in the music industry, the company announced on Tuesday.
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
The AMPTP says SAG-AFTRA declined a $1B+ deal with wage increases, pension, health contributions, residual increases, and “first-of-their-kind” AI protections — Major film and television studios offered Hollywood actors more than $1 billion in higher compensation and enhanced benefits …
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Reuters:
OpenAI commits $5M to the American Journalism Project in support of local news and $5M in API credits to help AJP's members assess and deploy emerging AI tech — OpenAI is committing $5 million to the American Journalism Project (AJP) under a partnership that will look for ways …
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Nieman Lab, Axios, VentureBeat, American Journalism Project, Gizmodo and Analytics India Magazine
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Since Bloomberg cut open-market programmatic ads on January 1, its CPMs are up ~20%, its average ad-load time is down 15%, and its page-load time is down 40% — Page load, viewability, CPMs and clickthrough rates have improved — On Jan. 1, the privately owned business publisher Bloomberg Media shut off …
Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information:
Sources: Cameo tells staff it is laying off 80+ workers because of financial pressures, leaving fewer than 50, down nearly 90% from its peak headcount last year — Cameo, the video shoutout app that gained in popularity during the pandemic shutdowns, told employees on Tuesday that it was laying off …
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Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rules that Instagram is not liable for copyright infringement related to embedded images on BuzzFeed News and Time — Two photographers who filed a copyright lawsuit against Instagram after their images posted to the platform appeared on BuzzFeed News …
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LAW.com, IPWatchdog.com, MediaPost, Gizmodo and US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, more at Techmeme »
Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg:
A bankruptcy court allows Diamond Sports to end its broadcasts of Arizona Diamondbacks games; MLB takes over streaming, starting with the first game on July 18 — - Bally Sports owner Diamond ends deal with second MLB team — MLB said it will broadcast future Diamondback's game
Axios:
Over 600 local broadcast stations form a coalition to urge the FCC to close a loophole that lets live TV streamers bypass distribution negotiations with them — Hundreds of local broadcast stations have come together to create a new advocacy coalition that will urge the Federal Communications Commission …
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The Coalition for Local News, @ben@werd.social, The Streamable, The Wrap and Radio & Television …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
Many of Penguin Random House's most influential editors have quietly decided to take buyouts, after layoffs on July 17, the beginning of a changing of the guard — Penguin Random House, the biggest book publisher in America, is cleaning house. — After CEO Markus Dohle failed …
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