Even as it celebrates its 27 Oscar nominations this week, Netflix unveiled its mega-slate of 86 titles for 2022. That’s far more than any traditional studio this year.
Viacom18 became the first media house in India to launch its own line of digital collectibles, popularly known as Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs). Fully Faltoo, Viacom18’s marketplace, is set to offer ‘fully valuable’ digital art conceptualised and created by the team that brings to life iconic brands like MTV, Vh1 and Comedy Central in India. The marketplace is all set to go live on 14th February 2022.
Ellis Jacob says that exclusive runs in theaters will lift all boats, including arthouse movies beyond tentpoles.
Italian anti-piracy group Digital Content Protection has launched a new service that helps rightsholders to police NFT platforms, Web 3.0 projects, and metaverse precursors. The company, which works with major music industry partners including Sony, Universal and Warner, stresses that there are large financial interests at stake.
A man from Sweden has been convicted for selling subscriptions to pirate IPTV service MacIPTV. The 21-year-old served around 3,000 customers and came to the attention of local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance in 2019, which prompted a police investigation and criminal prosecution.
The Inter-Departmental Committee or the government oversight body, envisaged in India’s digital regulations or IT Rules, implemented May 2021, has been constituted and met twice.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), which is expected to submit its final recommendations on various aspects of 5G spectrum auctions in March, has asked telecom companies and stakeholders to provide their additional submissions before 15 February, especially with details around methods for valuation of the spectrum.
Responding to the debate on the General Budget 2022-23 in the Rajya Sabha, she said that as per the report of Internet and Mobile association, the rural internet user base is growing three times faster and is likely to surpass the urban user numbers soon
The report titled “NFTs: A Technological and Legal Primer”, suggests that while several jurisdictions have introduced laws and regulations to govern crypto assets, no country has yet proposed an overarching regulation for NFTs, given the emergent legal and regulatory concerns associated with their use
Media company Viacom18 that last month launched non-fungible token (NFT) platform Fully Faltoo will be offering thousands of digital collectibles in its first drop that will include pop culture properties like Bakra NFT.