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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
A US judge orders states to negotiate a potential resolution with Live Nation and declines to rule on the request for a mistrial after the DOJ settled — A New York federal judge ordered a group of states to engage in settlement talks with Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to potentially resolve claims …
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Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press:
The US DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation, in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over US live events
The US DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation, in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over US live events
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Maer Roshan / The Hollywood Reporter:
In an interview, Harvey Weinstein says prison life is “hell”, Disney cut off his insurance and pays a $60K/year pension, he will be “proven innocent”, and more — In his first major sit-down from behind bars, the disgraced mogul fumes about life at Rikers ("I'm dying here" …
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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Disney promotes Thomas Mazloum to chairman of its parks, cruises, and consumer products division, succeeding Josh D'Amaro, who is set to become CEO on March 18 — Walt Disney Co. is promoting Thomas Mazloum to chairman of the company's parks, cruises and consumer products division …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
USA Today names Jamie Stockwell, a former editor at WaPo and NYT, as its next top editor; she is the third person named to the job in the past three years — Ms. Stockwell, who recently left The Washington Post, is the third person named to the job in the past three years.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata — - To date, there hasn't been a major media copyright lawsuit that focuses on the theft of a proprietary sequence or structure behind a dataset.
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Kerry Flynn / Axios:
YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to select government officials, political candidates, and journalists to “manage unauthorized AI-impersonation” — YouTube is expanding a tool designed to detect impersonations to a select group of government officials, political candidates and journalists.
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
After backlash, Superhuman says authors can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address — No apology, no overall change in direction. … They did the same to my boss Nilay Patel, my colleagues David Pierce and Tom Warren, and …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing $60.9B earned by Disney's media business — The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.
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Free Press Action Fund Feed:
A coalition of 41 press freedom groups writes an open letter condemning the arrest of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez by ICE and urging her release — Rodriguez's attorneys have filed an emergency petition, seeking an immediate review of whether her detention is legal
Rob Golum / Bloomberg:
Dish TV says Gray Media cut off Dish customers' access to 226 channels in 113 markets over a fee dispute and that Gray is seeking “unreasonable rate increases” — Echostar Corp., owner of the Dish TV service, said Gray Media Inc. cut off its customers' access to 226 channels …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Streaming pay-TV provider Philo adds a cheaper subscription tier, Essential plan, for $25 per month, $8 less than Bundle+; Philo has 1M+ subscribers — The Essential plan, which lit up Tuesday, costs $25 a month. That's $8 cheaper than Bundle+, which adds access to the ad-supported versions …
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Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
Meta emails advertisers about “location fees” in select European countries to cover digital services taxes, starting July 1; Google and Amazon have similar fees — Meta Platforms is asking advertisers to cover the costs of digital services taxes, levies imposed by countries on local sales made by technology firms.
