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Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Justin Baldoni sues The New York Times for $250M over its Blake Lively story, which accused him of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us and more — On June 2, 2023, Blake Lively began a text exchange with her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni that blamed …
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Altice USA customers lose access to MSG Networks due to a carriage dispute over fees between the cable TV operator and James Dolan's RSN — Altice USA customers lost access to MSG Networks early Wednesday due to a carriage dispute between the cable TV operator and James Dolan's regional sports channels.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Email: CNBC will seek $15/month for its streamer CNBC+; a pro tier will be $300/year, or $35/month; a bundle with Jim Cramer investment club will be $600/year — CNBC will seek $14.99 a month, or $99.99 a year, for access to a new targeted streaming service called CNBC+ that executives …
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Duke University School of Law:
Books, movies, and music published in 1929, including William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and sound recordings from 1924 enter the US public domain — On January 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Atlantic plans to hire ~12 journalists, including from WaPo, to bolster its political coverage under Trump; source: it added ~100K subscribers since March — The magazine is recruiting from a crosstown rival, The Washington Post, to bolster its political staff.
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian entities over attempted election interference, including a Moscow entity that imitated legitimate news outlets — The Treasury Department said Iran and Russia sought to divide Americans through targeted disinformation campaigns in the 2024 elections.
Hanna Park / CNN:
Aaron Brown, the CNN anchor who gained prominence for his coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and his role in shaping CNN's evening news format, died Sunday at 76 — Aaron Brown, the renowned CNN anchor who gained prominence for his coverage of the September 11 attacks and his pivotal role …
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Sportico:
Two sites that streamed sports events without authorization, Methstreams and Crackstreams, are “taking a break”; it's unclear if legal action forced takedowns — A segment of the online sports fan community mourned Monday as two popular websites for pirating illegal streams …
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt-out tool for creators, by 2025; sources: the tool was rarely viewed as an important launch internally — Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data.
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Bloomberg:
Broadcast networks are seeking higher fees from their local affiliates, often citing the rising cost of sports rights; CBS and Fox have been the most aggressive — - FCC chair nominee accuses Disney of ‘siphoning money away’ — Networks spend heavily on sports, want bigger share of fees
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Link-Busters, an anti-piracy company that works for Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and others, recently surpassed 2B URL takedown requests sent to Google — Online piracy is a constant headache for copyright holders; one that's particularly hard to beat.
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Inside Radio:
Salem agrees to sell its seven contemporary Christian radio stations to Educational Media Foundation for $80M and repays all $159.4M of its long-term debt — Moving to shore up its balance sheet, Salem Media Group has agreed to sell all its remaining contemporary Christian radio stations …
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