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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD sues the NBA over the league's “unjustified” decision to sell a package of media rights to Amazon, to which WBD claims to have a “contractual right” — The company had sought to match a proposal from Amazon Prime Video, but the league said that it “did not match the terms” of the deal.
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Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Music industry group IFPI has been working to get Musi, a free streaming app that sources music from YouTube, removed from the App Store and weighs legal action — App stores are littered with apps that promise free access to music, but only few live up to expectations. Musi is one of them.
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Sources detail how Elon Musk undermined CEO Linda Yaccarino's efforts to repair X's business over the past year; X's US revenue fell 53% YoY to $114M in Q2 — Linda Yaccarino, the C.E.O. of X, has worked hard to bring back advertisers and fix the platform's business.
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Mail Online, The Independent, Daily Mirror, and Daily Express roll out “consent or pay” walls charging users £1.99 to £4 per month for cookie-less access — Mail Online, The Independent and the websites of the Daily Mirror and Daily Express have begun requiring readers …
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Wall Street Journal:
Filing: the US DOJ says TikTok collected data about its users' views on gun control, abortion, and religion, and censored content at ByteDance's direction — Justice Department defends new law requiring the sale or ban of the popular app — TikTok collected data about its users' views …
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CBC News:
Canada's Postmedia plans to buy the SaltWire newspaper chain, which has been under protection from creditors since March, and hopes to close the deal in August — SaltWire would remain committed to local journalism, Postmedia says — Postmedia has entered an agreement to purchase SaltWire …
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Canadian Press, CWA Canada and Postmedia
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Freelancer.com, iFixit, and others say Anthropic's crawler has aggressively scraped their websites, potentially breaching their terms of service — Web publishers say developer is swarming their sites, collecting content to train models and ignoring orders to stop
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Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Charter lost 393K residential pay TV subscribers in Q2, compared to a loss of 189K in Q2 2023; overall video customers were 13.3M, down 9.5% YoY — The cable giant, led by CEO Chris Winfrey, also shed 154,000 broadband customers after the end of government subsidies.
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The Desk, Charter Communications, StreamTV Insider, MediaPost, Media Play News, Next TV, Reuters and TVNewsCheck
Bloomberg:
A look at Joe Rogan's comedy club in Austin, called The Mothership, and the network of comedians and podcast hosts he has supported and attracted to the city — The world's most controversial podcaster opened a comedy club there, snatched the stand-up title from Los Angeles and shook up an entire industry.
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Keir Starmer says reviving the second part of the Leveson inquiry into the relationship between UK media and police is not among his government's priorities — Press regulation campaigners accuse prime minister of lacking courage to stand up to newspaper owners
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Journalists strike at outlets owned by Australia's Nine; ~20 of the company's journalists who traveled to Paris to cover the Olympics are among those striking — Age reporter questions expense of flying TV personality to Europe while up to 90 staff are cut from newsrooms. Plus: Murdoch's real-life succession drama
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@niltiac, @niltiac, @niltiac, @kishor_nr, Al Jazeera and Mumbrella
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
A US judge rules Disney must face Gina Carano's wrongful termination lawsuit, denying Disney's claim of a 1A right to employ actors to promote certain values — Carano sued Disney earlier this year over her termination from the Disney+ series, with Elon Musk backing the effort.
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Brent Lang / Variety:
Amazon MGM Studios signs a deal with Netflix's ex-head of film Scott Stuber to release movies from his new production company under the United Artists label — Amazon MGM Studios has entered into a multi-year film partnership with Scott Stuber, the former head of film at Netflix.
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