Fox Corp. operates the only one of the four major U.S. broadcast networks that isn’t tied to a major direct-to-consumer subscription streaming play. The company also is the only one among its peers that has launched a dedicated Web3 and NFT division. Those two things are related, says Charlie […]
The rise of NFTs, cryptocurrencies and other Web3 technologies is giving talent and content creators new opportunities to interact with fans, which open entirely new frontiers: Could fans use the intellectual property contained on NFTs to create their own content and ideas? Will artists start to […]
How the internet's next evolution is shaping Hollywood's future
Overlapping metadata entries abound, with the music of two or more artists of the same name often being grouped together on the same artist page, creating an arduous task (both for rightsholders and DSPs) of separating out individual artist catalogs after the fact. But what if tagging the wrong […]
More than 350,000 households ditched subscriptions to the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ last quarter, according to regulator Ofcom’s annual Media Nations UK report, which showed a record year for British high-end TV production. While still high at 19.2M, the proportion of UK […]
The US government backed a finding that an Andy Warhol print used on a magazine cover infringed a photo of Prince, as friend-of-the-court briefs continued to pour into the US Supreme Court on Monday. The brief from the US solicitor general and US Copyright Office criticized the Warhol […]
The largest NFT marketplaces—including OpenSea, Magic Eden, and LooksRare—honor the royalty amounts set by creators. But some rival upstarts are gaining traction by appealing to NFT collectors that want to flip JPEGs with the lowest possible fees, regardless of the creator’s intent or the […]
The Rome Court of Appeal has confirmed that American streaming platform Vimeo must pay €8.5 million in copyright infringement damages to Italian broadcast giant Mediaset. The verdict centers around roughly 2,000 infringing videos that were uploaded to the platform. The Court affirms that Vimeo […]
Even with the rise of premium subscription video and audio services, content with ads still holds nearly 60% share of the total time U.S. audiences spend consuming entertainment, according to a new study. Looking at total entertainment time, U.S. consumers spend 74% on visual entertainment (i.e., […]
Tencent Music Entertainment, which operates China’s biggest music streaming platforms, ended the second quarter of 2022 with 82.7 million paying music users. Online music streaming subscribers paid RMB 2.11 billion (USD $315 million) for TME’s music streaming services including QQ Music, Kugou […]
