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5:25 PM ET, August 31, 2023

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Chris Willman / Variety:
Taylor Swift plans to release her concert film in AMC theaters on October 13 in the US; in a first, AMC plans to act as a distributor to unaffiliated theaters  —  Anyone who couldn't procure tickets for Taylor Swift's record-breaking stadium tour in the U.S. may be about to have their wounded …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Gannett pauses using Lede AI to write high school sports stories, after major flubs appeared in articles in at least one of its newspapers earlier in August  —  New York CNN —  —  Newspaper chain Gannett has paused the use of an artificial intelligence tool to write high school sports dispatches …
The Moscow Times:
A Russian court finds journalists Ruslan Leviev and Michael Nacke guilty of pushing “war fakes” and hands out 11-year sentences; both now live outside of Russia  —  A Russian court has handed 11-year prison sentences to exiled anti-war journalists Ruslan Leviev and Michael Nacke …
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
WBD's Max rolls out Top 10 lists for movies and TV shows, aligning with Netflix, Prime Video, and Apple TV+; rankings are based on views of at least two minutes  —  Max is finally getting into the top-ten game: Starting today, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamer will begin publishing daily lists …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
IAC Chairman Barry Diller says traditional Hollywood studios should negotiate directly with unions, splitting from Apple, Amazon, and Netflix, a mutual “enemy”  —  The mogul argues that the traditional studios should go to the guilds and cut their own deals: “We are your natural allies, not your enemies.”
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Sources: top executives from Disney, Amazon Studios, Netflix, Universal, WBD, and others planned to meet on August 30; Disney CEO Bob Iger wasn't set to attend
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Substack launches AI-powered tools to let podcasters create a transcript of their podcast episodes and generate a video “audiogram” to share on social media  —  Substack is introducing new AI-powered tools that are designed to make podcasting on the platform easier, the company announced on Wednesday.
Maria Bustillos / The Nation:
In the ebook copyright fight, authors should join forces to demand that contracts stipulate ebooks must be offered to libraries on the same terms as paper books  —  But corporate mega-publishers want purchasing a book to be like renting a movie or streaming an album.  —  Pocket
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Mark Thompson, who helped reinvent the NYT for the digital age while showing a solid understanding of the newsroom's mission, is a good bet for a beleagured CNN  —  As New York Times public editor, I worried about his time running the BBC  —  n late 2012, I was the newly minted public editor …
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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A look at One Piece, the live-action Netflix series launching on August 31 based on Eiichiro Oda's manga and anime series, and its unprecedented marketing deals
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Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
OpenAI files a motion to dismiss two similar lawsuits from book authors alleging copyright infringement, saying the authors “misconceive the scope of copyright”