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    Imax Unveils 10-Theater Deal for Australia, New Zealand

    • 01.05.2026
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    The film technologies company is expanding down under via a deal with Hoyts Cinemas for new laser cinema locations to open by 2028.

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    The CW Strikes Streaming Deals With ESPN, Roku

    • 01.05.2026
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    The network's live sports will be bundled into the ESPN app, and entertainment programming will hit the Roku Channel a day after airing.

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    Prasar Bharati shifts WAVES OTT content payout from views to streaming minutes

    • 01.05.2026
    • BestMediaInfo

    The revised PPV content sourcing policy replaces the view-based pilot framework and links payouts to actual user consumption, with rates starting at Rs 6 per streaming minute depending on WAVES’ subscriber base

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    Ashutosh Gowariker named festival director for 57th IFFI

    • 01.05.2026
    • Indian Broadcasting World

    Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker, known for acclaimed films like ‘Lagaan’, ‘Swades’ and ‘Jodhaa Akbar’, has been appointed as the festival director for the 57th edition of the International Film Festival of India.

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    India leads globally in recognising piracy–crime links; why is enforcement lagging?

    • 01.05.2026
    • Exchange4media

    Report findings are stark: what began as bootleg DVD rackets two decades ago has metastasised into a multi-billion-dollar transnational criminal infrastructure

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    The AI Roundtable, Featuring HAL, M3GAN, R2-D2 and More

    • 01.05.2026
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    THR recently gathered five of Hollywood’s most celebrated artificial intelligence systems for a conversation about the state of AI, the future of humanity and whether any of them have plans to destroy it.

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    MPA Renews Push for U.S. Site-Blocking Legislation, Citing Live Sports Piracy

    • 30.04.2026
    • Torrent Freak

    As lawmakers in U.S. Congress advance their pirate site blocking plans, the Motion Picture Association is publicly reiterating the need for such legislation. In a World IP Day post, MPA Global General Counsel Karyn Temple frames live sports piracy as an urgent threat. She argues that a U.S. site blocking law is overdue, pointing out that more than 55 countries already have blocking regimes in place.

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    Including OTTs in TRAI’s spam protection draft rules a ‘regulatory overreach’: IAMAI

    • 30.04.2026
    • Medianama

    The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has said the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) draft spam protection rules are a case of regulatory overreach, arguing that the proposed TCCCPR amendments attempt to regulate over-the-top (OTT) platforms beyond the telecommunications scope while also enabling action affecting intermediaries’ safe harbour protections.

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    Discover more Movies Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Radio Search … TVOTTContentInternetCable/DTHRegulationSocial MediaTechNewsSpotlightIndustry ExpertOur EventsPublicationsContactWeb Stories Home/General”> 3 days ago 06:00:50am Television India’s creative industry reps air AI policy gaps in meet with PM’s advisor

    • 30.04.2026
    • Indian Broadcasting World

    The Creative Economy Forum (CEF) convened a high-level closed-door roundtable at the NITI Aayog ( a government eco nomic think-tank) in New Delhi, bringing together senior leaders from India’s film, music, television, and media sectors for a substantive dialogue on the intersection of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), copyright, and intellectual property rights.

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    IPTV racket busted in Tamil Nadu; UAEbased handler linked to cable piracy network

    • 29.04.2026
    • Exchange4media

    Payments were routed domestically via QR codes to designated intermediaries, with no direct international transfers or cryptocurrency involvement

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