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    Short videos no longer sweet? 33% drop in monthly active users in 2023

    • 10.04.2024
    • exchange4media

    Avg monthly active users of short videos dropped to 246 million in 2023 from 366 million in 2022, as per an industry report.

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    Cannes Film Festival Launches Immersive Competition Section

    • 10.04.2024
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    The section will honor immersive works of virtual and augmented reality that "push the boundaries of storytelling.

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    MPA: Site-Blocking Will Stop Pirate Site Owners Who Abuse Kids & Traffick Drugs

    • 10.04.2024
    • TorrentFreak

    After a wait of more than 12 years, rightsholders in the United States will again seek legislation that will provide the framework for a site-blocking regime to combat online piracy.

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    China, Thailand Cinema Chains to Add Imax Venues as Premium Screens and Local Language Titles Boost Box Office – CinemaCon

    • 10.04.2024
    • Variety

    Cinema chains in mainland China and in Thailand have revealed plans to expand their park of Imax premium large format screens.

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    A Lasting Cultural and Economic Impact: MPA Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin on the Role the Film Industry Plays on a Local and Global Level

    • 10.04.2024
    • Boxoffice

    Having served at the helm of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) since 2018, Charles Rivkin is keenly aware of the current challenges and opportunities facing the entertainment industry.

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    ’10K Pirate Sites Blocked in 60 Days’: Piracy Shield Triggers Kool-Aid Crisis

    • 09.04.2024
    • TorrentFreak

    Critics of Italy's Piracy Shield are still publishing fake news when they should be using information from trusted sources, AGCOM noted last weekend.

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    Japan’s 2 Trillion Yen Manga & Anime Piracy War Gets New Hollywood Backing

    • 09.04.2024
    • TorrentFreak

    CODA's war against online piracy has received renewed backing from the Hollywood studios and Netflix.

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    Tata Play Binge enters into content partnership with DistroTV

    • 09.04.2024
    • exchange4media

    Tata Play Binge adds it's 31st OTT platform with DistroTV, an independent, ad-supported streaming TV platform, to its offering.

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    New AI law will guard rights of content creators: Experts

    • 09.04.2024
    • Telecom.com\EconomicTimes

    Experts hailed the proposed AI law as "timely" given the explosive growth of AI-generated content. This rapid development has the potential to disrupt the publishing industry and raise copyright infringement concerns, they said.

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    Hollywood Labor Backs AI Transparency Bill That Could Offer Firepower to Creators

    • 09.04.2024
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    If passed (and it could be a long shot), the legislation may provide evidence for filmmakers, writers and artists to sue AI companies for using their copyrighted works to train AI systems.

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