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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
ByteDance fired four employees after finding in a probe they accessed data on US TikTok users, including reporters, while trying to learn the sources of a story — The company's internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users.
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Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
Documents show TikTok parent ByteDance surveilled Forbes journalists Emily Baker-White, Katharine Schwab, and Richard Nieva, who had worked at BuzzFeed News — ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists' physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.
Wall Street Journal:
YouTube buys NFL Sunday Ticket's residential rights for seven years, sources say for ~$2B/year; DirecTV paid $1.5B/year for residential and commercial rights — Video streamer to pay annual fee of roughly $2 billion under seven-year deal — Created with sketchtool.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Fox News host Sean Hannity and others say they doubted 2020 claims of a voting fraud plot, as Dominion Voting lawyers try to show Fox knew it aired false claims — On Wednesday, lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems shared some of the strongest evidence yet that some Fox employees knew what they broadcast about the claims was false.
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A federal judge rules movie studios can be sued under false advertising laws if they release deceptive trailers, like ones featuring an actor cut from the movie — Movie studios can be sued under false advertising laws if they release deceptive movie trailers, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
David Robb / Deadline:
More than 130 WGA East members at Bustle Digital Group sign a petition calling on CEO Bryan Goldberg to address salary demands after two years of negotiations — More than 130 WGA East members employed at several media outlets owned by Bustle Digital Group have signed a petition calling …
Tiyashi Datta / Reuters:
AMC Entertainment announces a $110M equity raise by selling its APE preferred stock to Antara Capital at 66 cents per share; AMC stock initially fell 25%+ — AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC.N) said on Thursday it would raise $110 million in new equity capital through the sale of its preferred stock …
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Wall Street Journal:
Pathmatics: ~70% of Twitter's top 100 ad spenders before Elon Musk's takeover weren't spending as of the week ending December 18; 89% of 2021 revenue was ads — Executives are promising big incentives and new technology while also trying to explain the actions of their new owner
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Brian Cronin / CBR:
The US Copyright Office rules that a comic book made using AI art is ineligible for copyright protection, revoking its copyright granted in September 2022 — Reversing an earlier decision, the United States Copyright Office rules that a comic book made using A.I. art is ineligible for copyright protection
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Chris Stokel-Walker / Nature:
A look at Twitter's major role in research and science communication, especially during the pandemic, as researchers and scientists now leave the service — In November, Vince Knight decided he'd had enough of Twitter. After more than a decade on the social-media platform, Knight …
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@fortworthguild:
[Thread] The Fort Worth NewsGuild ends a strike at McClatchy's Star-Telegram, after movement from the company on its $45K pay floor, and promises details later — Big news: We are back at work. Over 24 days, the Fort Worth Newsguild protested @mcclatchy's unwillingness to negotiate fair conditions and made history as the first Texas newsroom in modern history to go on strike. 🧵 https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Jenkins / Duke University School of Law:
Books, movies, and songs published in 1927 enter the public domain in 2023, including Agatha Christie's The Big Four and Bessie Smith's Back Water Blues — On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1 They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail steps Netflix may take to reduce US password sharing, like charging account owners an extra sharing fee at just below the $6.99 ad-supported tier — Putting a stop to the practice without alienating customers will be a challenge — The end of password sharing is coming to Netflix soon …
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