The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has announced the appointment of Thomas Limouzin-Lamothe as Vice President, Content Protection EMEA, effective from March 9th. He will report to Larissa Knapp, Executive Vice President and Chief Content Protection Officer for the MPA. In his new role, Limouzin-Lamothe will lead the MPA’s content protection strategy across the EMEA region. He will […]

Japan’s premium VoD sector reached a significant milestone in 2025, expanding 15 per cent year-on-year to reach $7.2 billion (€6.07bn) in total revenue. The market is increasingly defined by layered monetisation strategies, including the expansion of ad-supported tiers and a strategic shift toward deeper local content, live events and sports, according to the Japan Online […]

Charles Rivkin, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), has voiced his concerns following the launch of Chinese AI service Seedance 2.0 from ByteDance. “In a single day, the Chinese AI service Seedance 2.0 has engaged in unauthorised use of US copyrighted works on a massive scale,” he stated. “By launching a service […]

Southeast Asia’s premium VoD market delivered a strong acceleration in 2025, with subscriber growth rebounding sharply, connected TV (CTV) emerging as a material driver of engagement, and local content reaching a new inflection point across the region, according to Media Partners Asia (MPA) and its proprietary measurement platform AMPD. Premium VoD subscriptions across Southeast Asia […]

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has hired Andrew Elliott as Vice President, Content Policy Counsel to bolster its advocacy efforts at the US state and federal levels on issues involving the regulation of its members’ motion pictures, television programmes, and streaming services. Elliott joins the MPA from the law firm Jenner & Block LLP, where […]

Media Partners Asia (MPA) has released Asia-Pacific Video & Broadband 2026 (AVB 2026), its flagship annual assessment of the region’s video industry. The report finds that Asia-Pacific total screen revenues will continue to grow through 2030, but that growth is increasingly concentrated in streaming, social video and connected TV (CTV), while traditional television faces sustained structural […]

The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), together with anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to bolster collaboration in the fight against illegal streaming and digital piracy across Latin America. The agreement strengthens the coordinated public–private enforcement framework. Under […]

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the antipiracy coalition, and DAZN, the sports streaming platform, have announced that the operator of Photocall – a website with pirated content hosted from Spain that retransmitted live channels – has agreed to shutter the illicit operation. Following an investigation conducted by ACE and DAZN, the operator of […]

Charles Rivkin, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), has criticised OpenAI’s stance on copyright responsibility following the recent release of video production tool Sora 2. “Since Sora 2’s release, videos that infringe our members’ films, shows, and characters have proliferated on OpenAI’s service and across social media,” he noted. “While OpenAI clarified […]

Trade body the Motion Picture Association (MPA) has welcomed the criminal sentencing of Steven R Hale to 21 months in federal prison by the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee for criminal copyright infringement. Hale stole and sold pre-release DVDs and Blu-rays of major films. The sentence follows Hale’s guilty plea in […]