The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons has published the Government response to the report on creator remuneration from the committee in the last Parliament. The report, published in April 2024, concluded that many successful musicians, actors, writers and visual artists were struggling to make a living as a result […]
StudioCanal has unveiled its new StudioCanal Kids & Family brand. The European studio says the new brand “demonstrates its ambition to strengthen its strategy around IP dedicated to kids and families and to clarify its expertise and experience in brand management”. StudioCanal Kids & Family is a rebrand of The Copyrights Group which became a […]
Too Young, a specialist in music supervision and audio post-production, has launched Catalog. The new, curated sync platform streamlines music licensing and aims to unleash songs’ full artistic and monetisation potential in audiovisual media. Catalog is the result of a collaborative effort between Too Young and a 20-strong list of founding partners, made up of […]
Two licensees in London and Essex have been ordered to pay a total of £32,133.28 (€37,600) in damages for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming illegally in their premises, following successful legal action taken by Sky. Sky sought, and was awarded, damages and costs in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC). The licensees […]
The Irish Industry Trust for IP Awareness, the representative body for the education and communication of copyright awareness and the safe and legal consumption of film, television, and other created content in Ireland, has launched a Best Practice Guide and National Charter to encourage accurate and responsible reporting of entertainment in the media. The Trust […]
Many successful musicians, actors and writers are struggling to make a living as a result of gaps in copyright protection, a lack of support for freelancers and unpredictable returns from music streaming, UK MPs have warned. A report, Creator remuneration, from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the House of Commons, highlights the precarious […]
MyStreme ihas announced partnership with the specilaist in studio-approved content filtering, Clearplay. This partnership is a major leap forward in MyStreme’s promise to its investors, and a major expansion for Clearplay’s audience, which is currently limited to PC users. Clearplay provides its customers with the ability to filter content depending on preferences for language, nudity, […]
A group of novelists, including John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen, are joining the suit filed by the US Authors Guild against OpenAI over its chatbot technology. They accuse the company, backed Microsoft, of infringing on their copyrights by using their books to train its popular ChatGPT chatbot. They say that OpenAI’s chatbots can now produce […]
The UK Government must follow through on its pledge and abandon plans to allow AI developers the free use of existing music, literature and works of art for the purposes of training artificial intelligence to come up with new creations, according to an all-party group of MPs. In its second report on connected technology, the […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, represented by Elizabeth-Jane Walsh BL, a licensee in Callan Co Kilkenny in the Republic of Ireland has been ordered to pay €32,538 in damages for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming illegally in their premises. An Order for costs has also been awarded against the licensee. […]