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3:10 AM ET, September 12, 2023

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney and Charter reach an agreement to restore some channels, including ESPN and ABC, for the cable operator's nearly 15M Spectrum subscribers  —  Disney and Charter have decided to let ESPN sports take the field on traditional cable after all.  —  The two media giants …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Interviews with Disney Entertainment co-chairman Dana Walden and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro about the Charter deal, how Spectrum expands ESPN+'s reach, and more  —  Walden, the co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, and Pitaro, the chairman of ESPN, talk about what the Spectrum deal means for their Disney divisions.
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Spectrum will no longer carry some Disney-owned channels, like Freeform, Disney Junior, Disney XD, FXX, and Nat Geo Wild, as part of Charter's new Disney deal
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast:
An investigation finds that Barstool Sports apparently controls 40+ “burner” X accounts to launder viral copyright-protected videos for its legitimate accounts  —  A Daily Beast investigation found more than forty content-swiping Twitter accounts apparently controlled by Barstool …
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly:
The Internet Archive appeals a US judge's decision in March 2023 favoring publishers in a copyright infringement case over the nonprofit's ebook lending program  —  As expected, the Internet Archive this week submitted its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely-watched copyright case involving …
Max Tani / Semafor:
NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users: X is throttling posts with New York Times links, with “weekly average shares per article” down 75%+ from a July peak  —  The Scoop  —  X, Elon Musk's social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users' access to The New York Times.
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The US Copyright Office denies protection for an AI-made image that won an art competition, despite Adobe Photoshop alterations and 624+ text prompt revisions  —  The U.S. Copyright Office has again rejected copyright protection for art created using artificial intelligence …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
A profile of Walter Isaacson, who has written biographies of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and others, was the editor of Time in the 1990s, and was running CNN on 9/11  —  It's a Saturday night in August, and Walter Isaacson is sitting in the back of Lilette, a restaurant on Magazine Street in his hometown of New Orleans, swizzling a Sazerac.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
How the UK's Reach is expanding its reader revenue trials, including apps with metered paywalls, to diversify away from its heavy reliance on ads  —  Reach is diversifying away from ad revenue, although that will remain the main focus.  —  Reach has expanded its experiments with reader revenue …
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
The Independent Florida Alligator, a student newspaper covering the University of Florida, rejected an ad promoting abortion pill access, fearing a Florida law  —  An anti-abortion law made Florida's largest college paper go independent 50 years ago.  And now that law is back to haunt the paper with serious free-speech restrictions.
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Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
How Tucker Carlson, deprived of the prime-time platform of Fox News, has grown less relevant and more extreme, as he pushes even more conspiracy theories on X  —  Carlson, once seen as a Republican powerbroker and even a presidential candidate, has grown more extreme and less relevant
 
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Variety:
The AMPTP says that its member studios remain aligned, after the WGA suggested that some of the legacy studios may be willing to accommodate the writers' demand
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Amazon starts requiring writers in its e-book program to disclose using AI-generated content in their books, after complaints from the Authors Guild and others