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The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used millions of its articles to train AI, the first major US media outlet to sue — Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
Lionsgate closes its acquisition of Hasbro's eOne for $375M plus assuming some production financing loans; Lionsgate's library grows by 6,500 film and TV titles — Lionsgate said today its acquisition of global entertainment platform eOne from Hasbro is done.
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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
The FCC rejects radio and TV broadcasters' call for deregulation, reaffirming rules on the number of TV or radio stations that owners can control in a market — The owners had argued for looser ownership restrictions given the growth of social media, podcasts and other online services.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Amazon plans to start showing ads in movies and shows on Prime Video from January 29, with an option for customers to pay an extra $2.99 per month to avoid them — Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Box office trends in 2023: audiences sought comfort, flocking to see Barbie, Taylor Swift, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and mostly skipped superhero movies — Movie audiences flocked to Taylor Swift, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” but were cooler toward returning superheroes like the Flash, Captain Marvel and Aquaman.
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Filing: Paramount Global parent company National Amusements experienced a data breach in December 2022, in which hackers stole information on 82,128 people — National Amusements, the cinema chain and corporate parent giant of media giants Paramount and CBS, has confirmed it experienced …
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Olivia Prentzel / The Colorado Sun:
The Colorado Springs Independent, a weekly alternative outlet that has served Colorado Springs for over 30 years, indefinitely ceases publication on December 27 — For three decades, the progressive weekly provided residents in Colorado's second-largest city with an alternate source of news …
Andrew Jack / Financial Times:
France's Sorbonne University switches to OpenAlex, a nonprofit academic data provider, boosting a growing movement to make research available for free — Paris university's ‘radical decision’ to join OpenAlex challenges for-profit providers — A leading French university has cancelled …
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Bartosz Brzeziński / Politico:
Poland's new government taking sweeping steps to free its state media sets off a political war, including the appointment of two dueling chiefs of public TV — WARSAW — Poland's new pro-EU government has taken sweeping steps to free state media from the political stranglehold imposed …
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Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
A US judge rejects Project Veritas' First Amendment claim in the case of an alleged theft of a diary of Biden's daughter; prosecutors may now get 900+ documents — Criminal prosecutors may soon get to see over 900 documents pertaining to the alleged theft of a diary belonging …
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Boing Boing, Vanity Fair, The Messenger and Associated Press
Wall Street Journal:
A look at ReelShort, a Chinese-backed app featuring dramas with episodes that last a minute; its CEO says it has generated $22M in revenue since its 2022 launch — ReelShort aims to succeed where Quibi failed—with cheesy plots and supernatural elements packed into one-minute episodes
Associated Press:
Study: social media companies collectively made ~$11B in US ad revenue from minors in 2022; YouTube earned the most at $959.1M from users 12 and under — Social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year, according to a study …
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Jennifer Jenkins / Duke University School of Law:
Books, movies, and music from 1928 and sound recordings from 1923 enter the US public domain on January 1; works include D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover — Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain — Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries may be different.
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