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George Hammond / Financial Times: 3 hours ago

Freelancer.com, iFixit, and others say Anthropic's crawler has aggressively scraped their websites, potentially breaching their terms of service

CBC News: 4 hours ago

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

Bloomberg: 4½ hours ago

How TikTok is trying to fend off a potential US ban, including through ad campaigns, lobbying, and funding lawsuits by creators

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

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”

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

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

Bloomberg:

How TikTok is trying to fend off a potential US ban, including through ad campaigns, lobbying, and funding lawsuits by creators

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

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

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

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

Carl Sullivan / Flipboard:

Flipboard adds feeds for 60+ US-based local and regional publications to the fediverse, including Texas Monthly, Honolulu Civil Beat, and CalMatters

George Hammond / Financial Times:

Freelancer.com, iFixit, and others say Anthropic's crawler has aggressively scraped their websites, potentially breaching their terms of service

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

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