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Propagate Content acquires a majority stake in Parker, which represents dozens of influencers; sources: CAA Evolution is raising money to buy YouTube channels (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) - 2025-05-11T18:45:00-04:00

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Propagate Content acquires a majority stake in Parker, which represents dozens of influencers; sources: CAA Evolution is raising money to buy YouTube channels — Streaming services, talent agencies and studios are throwing money at social media influencers (and their managers)

Sources: the Foreign Office has asked the BBC World Service to draw up a budget of up to �70M a year lower than the BBC management says it needs (The Guardian) - 2025-05-11T12:00:33-04:00

The Guardian:
Sources: the Foreign Office has asked the BBC World Service to draw up a budget of up to £70M a year lower than the BBC management says it needs — Exclusive: David Lammy asks BBC bosses to draw up tightened budget amid criticism move could harm UK's global influence

Giant Bomb goes independent as Fandom sells the site to longtime staffers Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb, and announces a new subscription model (Luke Plunkett/Aftermath) - 2025-05-11T10:45:00-04:00

Luke Plunkett / Aftermath:
Giant Bomb goes independent as Fandom sells the site to longtime staffers Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb, and announces a new subscription model — 'Giant Bomb has new owners, and you're looking at them' — Just over a week after being “blow up” by owners Fandom, a very exciting press release …

Sony Pictures' Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman signs a multiyear contract extension, making him the longest-serving film chief in Hollywood (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline) - 2025-05-11T09:50:00-04:00

Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Sony Pictures' Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman signs a multiyear contract extension, making him the longest-serving film chief in Hollywood — It's official: Tom Rothman has signed a multiyear extension of his contract as chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures' Motion Picture Group.

Court filing: internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times) - 2025-05-11T02:00:01-04:00

Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Court filing: internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times — What goes through the minds of people working at porn companies profiting from videos of children being raped?

Sources: the Trump administration fires US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about using copyrighted content to train AI (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News) - 2025-05-10T23:55:00-04:00

Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Sources: the Trump administration fires US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about using copyrighted content to train AI — The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.

Memo: the Pentagon orders all military academies to identify and remove books from their libraries promoting "divisive concepts" like race and gender ideology (CNN) - 2025-05-10T15:55:00-04:00

CNN:
Memo: the Pentagon orders all military academies to identify and remove books from their libraries promoting “divisive concepts” like race and gender ideology — The Pentagon has ordered all military academies to identify and remove books from their libraries that deal with issues such as race …

WMG launches the WMG Pulse app in beta to let artists and their teams access real-time information about streaming performance and more across various platforms (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide) - 2025-05-10T08:55:01-04:00

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
WMG launches the WMG Pulse app in beta to let artists and their teams access real-time information about streaming performance and more across various platforms — Warner Music Group has launched a new app called WMG Pulse, described as a “powerful new platform that puts clear …

Over 400 British musicians, writers, and artists ask Keir Starmer to back a rule requiring developers to be transparent about using their material to train LLMs (BBC) - 2025-05-10T02:55:01-04:00

BBC:
Over 400 British musicians, writers, and artists ask Keir Starmer to back a rule requiring developers to be transparent about using their material to train LLMs — Dua Lipa, Sir Elton John, Sir Ian McKellen and Florence Welch are among a list of stars calling on the prime minister …

WGA members vote to uphold the expulsion of two writers accused of performing forbidden "writing services" during the 148-day strike in 2023 (Gene Maddaus/Variety) - 2025-05-10T02:05:00-04:00

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
WGA members vote to uphold the expulsion of two writers accused of performing forbidden “writing services” during the 148-day strike in 2023 — The members of the Writers Guild of America have voted to uphold the expulsion of two writers accused of writing during the 2023 strike …

Trump Media reports Q1 net sales up 6.6% YoY to $821.2K, a net loss of $31.7M, vs. a $327.6M net loss in Q1 2024, and $759M in cash and investments (Todd Spangler/Variety) - 2025-05-09T22:40:00-04:00

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump Media reports Q1 net sales up 6.6% YoY to $821.2K, a net loss of $31.7M, vs. a $327.6M net loss in Q1 2024, and $759M in cash and investments — Trump Media & Technology Group, the company majority-owned by President Donald Trump that operates the Truth Social social-media platform …

Sources: Sky and TNT are asking for more access from English Premier League clubs, like the right to film in dressing rooms, after paying �6.7B for TV rights (Matt Hughes/The Guardian) - 2025-05-09T16:15:02-04:00

Matt Hughes / The Guardian:
Sources: Sky and TNT are asking for more access from English Premier League clubs, like the right to film in dressing rooms, after paying £6.7B for TV rights — - Sky Sports and TNT Sports want more for their money — Chats at half-time or with substituted players proposed

Sources: YouTube is favored to stream the NFL's opening week Friday night game, its first exclusive NFL broadcast, which may be available globally for free (Andrew Marchand/New York Times) - 2025-05-09T15:45:02-04:00

Andrew Marchand / New York Times:
Sources: YouTube is favored to stream the NFL's opening week Friday night game, its first exclusive NFL broadcast, which may be available globally for free — Google's YouTube has emerged as the heavy favorite to stream its first exclusive NFL game on Friday of the opening week …

Barnard lifts suspensions on Columbia Spectator and WKCR student reporters who covered a pro-Palestinian protest on campus (Isha Banerjee/Columbia Daily Spectator) - 2025-05-09T15:00:01-04:00

Isha Banerjee / Columbia Daily Spectator:
Barnard lifts suspensions on Columbia Spectator and WKCR student reporters who covered a pro-Palestinian protest on campus — Barnard lifted the interim suspensions Friday morning of three student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest, citing “additional review and investigation …

Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, who co-authored an op-ed criticizing Israel in a student newspaper last year, is released from ICE custody after a judge's order (New York Times) - 2025-05-09T14:25:00-04:00

New York Times:
Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, who co-authored an op-ed criticizing Israel in a student newspaper last year, is released from ICE custody after a judge's order — The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was being detained in Louisiana. A federal judge said her detention threatened to chill the speech of millions of noncitizens.

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