Games, fitness, social media revenue 'now proportionate' to publishing biz
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) sent letters to the publishers, Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan, on Thursday asking for detailed responses about the contracts and any restrictions on deals made with libraries for e-book […]
Roblox unveiled its “Listening Party” feature via a formal release, noting early on that this “latest innovation” will afford artists and labels “a unique and creative way to engage and attract millions of fans and unlock new commercial opportunities in the metaverse.” Source: Roblox […]
The academic community platform ResearchGate has removed 200,000 files in response to a wave of copyright complaints from publishers ACS and Elsevier. The takedowns go against ResearchGate’s open-access philosophy but, legally, it saw no other option than to comply. Source: ResearchGate Removes […]
Amortized spending on movies and TV shows by Netflix will rise 26% to $13.6 billion in 2021 and will reach $18.92 billion by 2025, according to predictions published Thursday by S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Kagan media research division. Of that $13.6 billion in amortized spending, $5.21 […]
Last month, the administrator of Ditko’s estate filed a notice of termination on Spider Man, which first appeared in comic book form in 1962. Under the termination provisions of copyright law, authors or their heirs can reclaim rights once granted to publishers after waiting a statutory set […]
Netherlands-based Pythagoras Music Fund (PMF), which MBW has confirmed is worth €100 million ($117m), has just acquired 100% of the shares in Dutch music companies Nanada Music and Red Bullet from Dutch music industry legend Willem van Kooten. Nanada and Red Bullet are home to artists including […]
For musicians who earn money from their music, 40% said that their overall income has increased since 2015, 32% said that it had decreased, and 28% said that it had stayed the same. Note the ‘overall’ word there: one of the report’s other findings is that for many musicians, recorded music is […]
Yet another non-fungible token (NFT) project has been signed by a major Hollywood talent agency to translate the crypto collectibles into more traditional entertainment formats. After Cryptopunks was signed by UTA in August, CAA has now pacted with an NFT venture called Jenkins The Valet for […]
Streamer plans gaming, stage and screen adaptations of classic books
