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...OpenAI has launched a charm offensive in Hollywood, holding meetings with major studios including Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros Discovery to showcase its video generation technology Sora and allay...
...It also does not have the burden of legacy cable television networks that Paramount, Disney, Warner Bros and Universal do....
...The French group controlled by billionaire Vincent Bolloré has made expanding in pay-TV and streaming a priority after selling most of its stake in Universal Music Group, leaving Canal Plus as its main source...
...The bill will also give state-owned Channel 4 the right to produce some of its own content, instead of licensing it from other studios after the government scrapped plans to privatise the broadcaster....
...But record labels and artists have for years complained that the platform was short-changing the industry by hosting a proliferation of fan videos that used their music without licensing permission....
...Civil servants at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency will also strike on Monday, followed on Wednesday by university staff — although no longer teaching staff in Wales — and then ambulance workers in...
...It also has a deal with Caesars, ESPN’s exclusive sports book odds data provider and the owner of the Las Vegas studio where the channel films much of its betting programmes....
...The teenage Lucian hung out with punk bands in garages and derelict houses, creeping into studios at midnight and, legend has it, quitting school when he signed his first band, the Psychedelic Furs....
...Twitter has not yet struck the kind of music licensing agreement that YouTube and TikTok have with labels that can insulate their users from some complaints....
...After a wave of mega-consolidation, MGM is one of the few Hollywood studios not to have been gobbled up by a larger conglomerate, with Warner Bros operating within AT&T; Fox under Disney; Universal within...
...But the likes of Walt Disney, Comcast’s Universal Studios or AT&T’s Warner Bros are in no position to play superheroes....
...The advent of technological innovations such as the microphone created a new acoustic space for making music — the recording studio....
...The antitrust enforcer is also investigating Universal Studios....
...In addition to the costs of investing in content and technology, Disney estimates it will lose $150m in licensing money a year by pulling its programming from Netflix....
...Thursday’s agreement smashes the country-by-country licensing regime that has dominated the sales of exclusive pay-TV content such as sports matches and new films....
...It lasted until 1962, when antitrust regulators forced MCA to quit the agency business as the price for acquiring Universal Pictures....
...Studios like Warner Brothers, Universal and 20th Century Fox that have long dominated the industry now face competition from tech groups, while YouTube stars have achieved similar clout to traditional actors...
...As the box office has become increasingly risky in the age of digital streaming, the big studios, including Paramount and Universal, have sold some castoff films to the likes of Netflix....
...“If the studios are in trouble and going to go out of business, we lose leverage and our clients lose jobs....
...Spotify’s vast catalogue of 30m songs due to its licensing deals with Sony, Warner and Universal allows users to access practically any song they want....
...three months, including agreements with Universal Music Group, the world’s largest label, and Sony/ATV, the sector’s biggest publisher....
...Net income at the largest US cable group, which owns the NBC TV networks and the Universal Pictures film studio, rose 18.5 per cent to $2.65bn, or 55 cents a share, in the third quarter, from $2.24bn, or...
...Comcast’s NBCUniversal owns the NBC broadcast network, as well as portfolio of cable channels and the Universal film studio and it is also an investor in Hulu....
...Net income at the largest US cable group, which owns the NBC TV networks and the Universal Pictures film studio, rose 24 per cent to $2.5bn, or 52 cents a share, in the second quarter, from $2.03bn, or 41...
...Family fare like Universal’s Despicable Me 3 and the latest in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise also proved hits....
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