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    The Film and TV Tax Credit Race Is Getting Even More Competitive

    • 16.02.2022
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    California’s legislature is poised to pass an extension to its incentives program through 2030, but other states are sweetening their deals to lure more production away from the Golden State.

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    UK High Court Grants the MPA its First “Pirate” Cyberlocker Blocking Order

    • 16.02.2022
    • TorrentFreak

    The UK High Court has ordered six of the country's largest ISPs to block access to Mixdrop.me and Mixdrop.co. The injunction was requested on behalf of Netflix and several major Hollywood studios. The Motion Picture Association notes that this is the first blocking action in the UK that's aimed at a cyberlocker service hosting movies and TV shows.

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    Google Should Ban Pirate Sites, Say Authors John Grisham & Scott Turow

    • 16.02.2022
    • TorrentFreak

    John Grisham & Scott Turow have renewed their calls for service providers to do much more to combat online piracy. On the heels of an extremely complicated legal win over a number of pirate eBook platforms, the best-selling authors say that search engines including Google should delist pirate platforms completely and the government needs to step up funding for criminal enforcement.

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    4.6 million households moved from Pay TV to FTA in last 12-15 months: Punit Goenka

    • 16.02.2022
    • exchange4media

    The Pay TV market has seen an erosion of 4.6 million households in the last 12-15 months due to consumers migrating to free-to-air services, said Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) MD & CEO Punit Goenka.

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    ViacomCBS Gets a New Name: Paramount

    • 16.02.2022
    • tvtech

    ViacomCBS has announced that it will change its name to Paramount on Weds. Feb. 16, with shares of PARAA (Class A common), PARA (Class B common) and PARAP (Preferred Stock), starting to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange on February 17, 2022.

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    Origianl content is going to be the winning factor for OTTs like Zee5!

    • 16.02.2022
    • IndianTelevision

    The Indian OTT space is experiencing an exciting phase with the influx of new content. And leading the race is India’s home-grown platform, ZEE5. With a path-breaking bouquet of offerings spanning multiple genres, ZEE5 is set to wow audiences with an exciting line-up of original movies and web series.

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    Digital to become largest medium, bypassing TV with 45% media share: GroupM report

    • 16.02.2022
    • IndianTelevision

    India ad spends are estimated to reach Rs 107,987 crore in 2022, growing by 22 per cent over last year, as per the GroupM futures report ‘This Year, Next Year’ (TYNY) 2022. The country is set to be the fastest-growing market in ad spends among the top ten global markets retaining its ninth rank and the fifth highest contributor to incremental ad spends.

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    TV broadcasters withdraw petitions challenging Trai’s NTO 2.0

    • 16.02.2022
    • LiveMint

    While allowing the withdrawal, the Supreme Court has kept the question of law of the broadcasters' challenge open, thereby, allowing the broadcasting industry the ability to re-agitate the legal challenge at a future date, if Trai fails to address their concerns

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    Facebook parent Meta settles decade-old data-privacy lawsuit

    • 16.02.2022
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. has settled a decade-old class action lawsuit over the companies used of "cookies" in 2010 and 2011 that tracked people online even after they logged off the Facebook platform

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    Production house Pooja Entertainment acquires virtual land in metaverse

    • 16.02.2022
    • BusinessToday

    The space, titled Poojaverse, will be a virtual area for the makers to create first-of-its-kind quality immersive experiences for viewers starting with their recently announced project "BadeMiyan ChoteMiyan", starring Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff.

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