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New technology that can mimic artists’ voices has been seen as growing threat
...Given the importance of the intellectual property, Warner has asked that any sale give it control over how certain soundtracks are used and requested other stipulations....
...Paramount is behind some of the most storied properties in entertainment, such as The Godfather, Star Trek, Titanic and Mission: Impossible....
...Wiedenfels wants to squeeze as much money as possible out of the company’s intellectual property, a strategy that he pursued at Discovery, where the company has sliced and diced the airing rights for premiere...
...Arm strikes licensing deals with partners regardless of size or geography, which has led to its intellectual property being used in the majority of chips sold worldwide....
...Even so, his remaining properties, from The Wall Street Journal to HarperCollins, the book publisher, ensure that his influence remains undimmed....
Performer’s estate in advanced talks to benefit from gold rush for music copyright
...Law firm Paul Hastings has hired investment funds lawyer Anna Rips as a New York-based partner. Rips previously worked at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom....
...(The ad would eventually lead to the incoherent collision of intellectual properties known as Space Jam, which Riswold called “a terrible movie” and “the greatest extension of bullshit that ever came out...
...Endeavor’s “owned sports properties” division, which includes UFC, made revenues of more than $1.3bn in 2022, up from $1.1bn the previous year....
...The company had been in advanced talks to sell its 80 per cent share of Move Inc to rival property listings group CoStar, in a deal valued in the “low billions” of dollars, the Financial Times reported last...
...His focus would be “on world class [intellectual property], whether it’s theatrical linear or streaming”....
...He is seeking to cut $3bn by eliminating overlaps in technology, property and other corporate costs. Job losses are widely expected and may come into scrutiny given Zaslav’s large pay package....
...After Disney unveiled a slate of Disney Plus programming based on Marvel and Star Wars properties in December 2020, for example, its stock briefly hit a record high. But the sentiment has now changed....
...Owners will charge producers for add-ons such as lights, catering and “grip” technicians, services that can make up as much as half a property’s rental income, according to industry executives....
Universal and others accuse video-sharing app of using their songs without licences
...I don’t see any [Netflix] properties except Stranger Things that would make a good game. Bridgerton? Ozark? Murder Mystery? Puhleeeez.” Others have struck a more optimistic tone....
...That’s not surprising, says Anna Somers Cocks, founding editor of The Art Newspaper: “How do you value a work of art that is part of a building and cannot be resold separately from it?”...
...A US congressional committee last month sent Spotify a letter demanding answers about Discovery Mode, warning that it “could weaken the core goal of copyright and intellectual property”....
...Verizon wrote off the value of its media assets — comprising properties such as Tumblr, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Yahoo Sports — by almost $5bn and, having tried to sell it repeatedly, finally...
...Even Jeff Zucker, a longtime friend of Zaslav and the chief executive of CNN, one of WarnerMedia’s most important properties, only found out about the deal on Sunday....
...In traditional record deals, the music label takes ownership of an artists’ intellectual property in exchange for investing in their development....
...Smart reads Levelling up A hitherto obscure lender, Little Rock’s Bank OZK, has become one of the most prolific lenders to Manhattan property developers....
Company attributes bounce back to guests paying higher rates for bigger, more rural properties
...Discovery, whose properties include the eponymous cable channel and networks such as TLC and Animal Planet, is much smaller than these groups but has a few crucial advantages....
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