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Songtradr:
Music licensing marketplace Songtradr acquires Bandcamp and plans to keep operating Bandcamp as a marketplace and community with an artist-first revenue share — (September 28 - Los Angeles) - Songtradr, a music licensing platform and marketplace company supporting artists, labels and publishers …
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Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Epic Games lays off 16% of its workforce, or ~830 employees, divests from music storefront Bandcamp, and intends to spin off “kid-tech” company SuperAwesome
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google lets publishers use a robots.txt flag to opt out of the company using their data to train its AI models, while remaining accessible through Google Search — Google just announced it's giving website publishers a way to opt out of having their data used to train the company's AI models …
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Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
Negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and video game companies end without a deal; the current contract will continue as the sides “make final efforts to reach a deal” — Current contract extended as groups prepare for “final efforts” to reach a new agreement
Wall Street Journal:
Gannett received nearly 1,000 applications for two jobs, covering Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, including from Emmy-award-winning journalists and TikTok influencers — USA Today parent Gannett is sifting through responses from Emmy-award-winning journalists, TikTok influencers …
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Jason Bailey / New York Times:
Using “content” to describe art and entertainment, as Variety did in a tweet, flattens many professions into one and purposefully minimizes creators' work — The term may be popular in an age of blurring lines between platforms, but the Hollywood strikes have shown how the phrase can devalue creative work.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Society of Professional Journalists treasurer Israel Balderas, as membership and revenue dwindle; its foundation still has $14M in the bank — “If we don't change our thinking, the next incoming president will be the last president.” — The Society of Professional Journalists …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Interviews with 110 people in the US, UK, and Germany show that younger and older people may have different reference points for the right price of online news — A few years back, German publisher Spiegel decided to try something new: A cheaper Spiegel+ digital subscription just for readers under 30.
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
HBO Max's The Janes takes the top documentary award at the 44th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards; CNN led the news awards followed by Vice and the NYT — The 44th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards completed the second of two nights of awards with its doc prizes …
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Tony Stubblebine / The Medium Blog:
Medium plans to block AI companies from training on posts published on Medium until the company can get concessions regarding credit, compensation, and consent — Fair use in the age of AI: Credit, compensation and consent are required. — · — · — Just now
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Filing: a judge denies journalist Timothy Burke's request to get back his seized equipment and to have unsealed an FBI affidavit that led to his home's search — Additionally, a judge has refused to unseal an FBI affidavit that was filed with an application for a search warrant earlier this year.
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U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
Drew Richardson / CNBC:
After Media Matters found NFL ads placed on white nationalist accounts on X, the NFL says it “expressed our concerns to X to understand and rectify the issue” — - The National Football league responded to a report that its ads appeared on white nationalist X accounts.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox TV Stations signs a deal with Waymark, which uses AI to help local and regional advertisers make commercials; Waymark works with Gray, Spectrum, and others — Fox TV Stations wants to help even the smallest local advertiser make an appearance on TV.
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