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...Developing a financial model for the use of news content to train AI will be extremely difficult, according to publishing leaders....
...On behalf of 17 music publishers including Sony Music Group and Universal Music Publishing Group, the National Music Publishers’ Association filed a suit in the federal district court of Nashville alleging...
...Others in the music, book publishing and broadcasting sectors have similar misgivings about the exploitation of their original works — for example, the creation of “deep fake” AI-generated productions using...
...In the past five years, Sony has gone on an acquisition spree to expand its entertainment assets, buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and spending $1.2bn to acquire AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll...
...He added that his right-hand man’s biggest contribution had been to “support growth investments”, citing how Totoki led the $2.3bn acquisition of EMI Music Publishing in 2018 and aggressive investments in...
...In the past three years, it has signed more than $5bn worth of deals, including buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and a proposed $1.2bn acquisition of AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll....
...That’s as long as Vivendi can placate regulators in Brussels by spinning off its own French-focused publishing business, Editis, and selling its remaining stake....
...“News Corp, Time Warner, Bertelsmann, Condé Nast . . . everyone is after us,” Smith told the Financial Times in 2012. The biggest old media conglomerates piled in....
...“We are truly gratified that David Bowie’s body of music will now be in the capable hands of Warner Chappell Music Publishing,” said Allen Grubman, the lawyer representing the David Bowie estate....
...Spotify has responded to criticism by publishing its rules about content and has promised to add an advisory to all podcasts that discuss Covid....
...For example, publishing the algorithm that determines what users see on Twitter could lead to gaming of the system and skewing of content....
...“But our project in publishing is ambitious and global.”...
...selling most of its biggest business Universal Music Group last year....
...Blackstone buys into music rightsBlackstone has taken a big step into the world of music rights as valuations boom, announcing a tie-up with Hipgnosis Song Management....
...well as shareholders in the other top musical publishing houses Sony Music and Warner Music....
...The music industry’s most powerful CEO approaches his biggest act yet Universal Music’s Lucian Grainge is the most powerful executive the music industry has ever seen....
...Apple’s 2014 purchase of Beats Electronics fed into Apple Music and the high margin Services segment of the company....
...One thing to start: Tribune Publishing’s board has recommended shareholders back a takeover offer by hedge fund Alden Capital rather than a higher offer from a Baltimore-based hotel magnate who wants to...
...Balancing out those risks, said Hirokazu Hamamura, gaming expert and senior adviser to the board at publishing company Kadokawa, is the big increase in gaming during the pandemic in the absence of other...
...Volkswagen, which is also publishing its earnings this week, issued a warning to top managers in April to be braced for a bigger production hit in the second quarter than the first because of the global...
...Additionally, our financial results are generally affected by the appeal of our recorded music and music publishing catalogues to consumers....
...But one “Baby Shark”, the tune that helped South Korean children’s music producer SmartStudy rake in $88m in sales last year, is here to change all that....
...Entertainment company Primary Wave Music Publishing is a prime mover in this burgeoning market....
...Set to stirring music, the promo video to celebrate the launch last week of Frontex’s first uniform is a 77-second microcosm of a profound change in EU migration policy....
...News Corp to shut 100 Australian titlesThe Rupert Murdoch controlled publishing group is closing more than 100 print newspapers in Australia after a collapse in advertising owing to coronavirus....
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