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    As Paramount Bids for Warner Bros, Rivaling Netflix, What Does It Mean for Jio Hotstar?

    • 10.12.2025
    • Medianama

    Paramount Skydance has directly gone with an offer to Warner Bros Discovery’s shareholders in order to gain control of the media and entertainment company ahead of streaming giant Netflix, as per a BBC report.

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    DPIIT Committee Proposes Mandatory AI Licensing Model With Royalties And No Opt-Out For Creators

    • 10.12.2025
    • Medianama 

    India has entered the global copyright and artificial intelligence (AI) debate with the release of a paper titled Working Paper on Generative AI and Copyright Part 1: One Nation One License One Payment, published by a committee formed by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).

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    ‘Fair Dealing’ Fix in Copyright Law Will Not Reduce Legal Exposure of AI Developers: DPIIT Committee

    • 10.12.2025
    • Medianama

    Amid the ongoing debate on whether the “fair dealing” exception on copyright infringement can be applied to the process of training AI models, a government committee has said that amending existing law will not help adequately protect the rights of content creators, nor will it reduce the legal exposure of AI developers.

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    Simply Speaking: Algorithm Meets Ancestry — Netflix Takes on Warner Brothers

    • 10.12.2025
    • Storyboard18

    In a move that stuns tech and thrills Hollywood, Netflix has spent $82.7 billion not on algorithms, but on ancestry. Shubhranshu Singh breaks down why the future of entertainment now rests on the power of shared cultural memory.

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    Govt revises draft TRP guidelines for television ratings

    • 10.12.2025
    • Storyboard18

    The new system to reflect the diverse and evolving media consumption habits of viewers

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    Amazon to invest over $35 billion in India’s cloud, AI infrastructure by 2030

    • 10.12.2025
    • Storyboard18

    Amazon, which has already deployed $40 billion in India since 2010, had previously announced a $26 billion investment in 2023

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    Broadcasters back MIB push to remove sector from TRAI, cite need for TRAI Act amendment

    • 10.12.2025
    • Storyboard18

    At its core, the debate now hinges on one question: Can the Centre shift broadcasting out of TRAI without amending the TRAI Act — and therefore without going through Parliament?

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    JioStar cracks down on piracy in Srinagar

    • 10.12.2025
    • Indian Television

    Local cable operator caught rerunning channels illegally, sparking police action

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    Govt panel moots AI firms pay for content used in training models

    • 10.12.2025
    • Indian Broadcasting World

    An Indian government panel has proposed requiring AI companies to pay content creators a share of revenue for using their work to train models, a setback for companies such as OpenAI and Google that back free access to publicly available data.

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    OTT is expanding cinema, not replacing it: Udhayanidhi Stalin

    • 10.12.2025
    • BestMediaInfo

    Tamil Nadu government and JioHotstar sign LoI to back the state’s creative economy, with a Rs 12,000-crore South storytelling push and 16,000 jobs on the horizon

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