Writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sue Anthropic, saying it misused their books and others' to train Claude (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Mediagazer: Writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sue Anthropic, saying it misused their books and others' to train Claude (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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Wall Street Journal:

Sources: former Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. has submitted a $4.3B offer for National Amusements and a minority stake in Paramount Global— Bronfman is looking to scuttle a previous agreement to merge Paramount with David Ellison's Skydance Media — Media executive Edgar Bronfman Jr …
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Dawn Chmielewski /
Reuters: Edgar Bronfman submits rival bid to acquire Paramount Global

Rocio Fabbro /
Quartz: Edgar Bronfman wants to buy Paramount for $4.3 billion — and take it away from Skydance

Alexei Barrionuevo /
The Wrap: Edgar Bronfman Jr. Makes Last-Minute $4.3 Billion Bid for Paramount

Lauren Thomas /
Lauren Thomas on LinkedIn: Breaking overnight on The Wall Street Journal: Media executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. has formally made his play for Shari Redstone's media empire …

Erik Gruenwedel /
Media Play News: Investor Edgar Bronfman Jr. Offers $4.3 Billion Bid For Paramount Global

Jeff Jarvis /
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social: Battle of three billionnaire nepo babies now: — Edgar Bronfman Submits $4.3 Billion Bid for Redstone's National Amusements, Paramount Stake https://www.wsj.com/...

Todd Spangler /
Variety: Edgar Bronfman Jr. Makes $4.3 Billion Bid to Take Control of Paramount Global in Challenge to Skydance Deal

Mandy Dalugdug /
Music Business Worldwide: Edgar Bronfman Jr. makes $4.3bn bid for Paramount, challenging Skydance deal (Report)

Jon Lafayette /
Next TV: Edgar Bronfman Makes $4.3 Billion Bid For Paramount

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Axios:

Source: Edgar Bronfman Jr. has raised $5.5B for a bid for National Amusements, and plans to submit a bid higher than his initial $4.3B offer in the coming days— - It would also draw out an already long and complicated sale process for Paramount. … - Paramount's special committee is expected to review the bid on Wednesday.

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The Media Leader, The Hill, @sarafischer, The Desk and Reuters

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Sabrina Quagliozzi /
The Media Leader: Bronfman challenges Skydance for Paramount control

Dominick Mastrangelo /
The Hill: Edgar Bronfman Jr. makes multi-billion dollar bid for Paramount

Sara Fischer /
@sarafischer: Scoop: Edgar Bronfman Jr. has raised more $ for his @Paramount bid. Now has up to $5.5B raised —He's hoping to submit new bid if “go-shop” window extended —Money coming from indivs & fam offices like Fortress, BC Partners Advisors, others More on @axios https://www.axios.com/...

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: Edgar Bronfman, Jr. submits bid for Paramount Global

Music Business Worldwide:

The AGs of 10 states join the US DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster; 39 states, plus DC, are now part of the lawsuit— The attorneys general of 10 states have joined the US Department of Justice (DoJ)'s antitrust lawsuit seeking to break off Live Nation …

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US Department of Justice, TechCrunch, CMU, Music Ally, WOWT-TV, NOLA.com, KTIV-TV, KOB.com, The Verge, @justiceatr, @baddcompani, @pgunigantiat, @tessaduvall, @paulhammelne, Quartz, @yahoofinance, @future_of_music, @edbott.com, @agtennessee, Tennessee State Government, 9to5Mac, @newyorkstateag, @moetkacik, Billboard, Rolling Stone and Reuters, more at Techmeme »

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US Department of Justice: Ten Additional States Join Justice Department's Suit Against Live Nation-Ticketmaster for Monopolizing Markets Across the Live Concert Industry

Amanda Silberling /
TechCrunch: Thirty-nine state AGs now support Live Nation-Ticketmaster lawsuit

Chris Cooke /
CMU: Ten more states join US government's Live Nation lawsuit, which now seeks treble damages

Stuart Dredge /
Music Ally: 10 more states join Justice Department's Live Nation lawsuit

Julia Guilbeau /
NOLA.com: Louisiana joins massive US Ticketmaster lawsuit before Taylor Swift's New Orleans concerts

Jonathan Fjeld /
KOB.com: New Mexico joins Justice Department lawsuit against Ticketmaster

Gaby Del Valle /
The Verge: Ticketmaster's nontransferable ‘SafeTix’ are anticompetitive, DOJ suit claims @justiceatr: Ten Additional States Join Justice Department's Suit Against Live Nation-Ticketmaster for Monopolizing Markets Across the Live Concert Industry 🔗: https://www.justice.gov/... [image]

Pallavi Guniganti /
@pgunigantiat: Reminder that it's totally possible to bring Section 1 and Section 2 claims in the same complaint.

Tessa Duvall /
@tessaduvall: Per the Tennessee Attorney General's Office, 10 more states have signed on to the lawsuit against Ticketmaster. With 41 plaintiffs, Kentucky is still not one of them. [image] @paulhammelne: Glad to see @mikehilgers NE's attorney general join the U.S. Dept of Justice's lawsuit against @Ticketmaster Anyone out there had a good experience with their fees or services?

William Gavin /
Quartz: 10 more states just joined the DOJ's push to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster @yahoofinance: Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, and Vermont joined the DOJ's lawsuit against Live Nation-Ticketmaster for monopolizing the live concert industry. A total of 39 states, plus Washington D.C., are now suing the company. [image] @future_of_music: Among other things, this demonstrates that taking on monopoly power is a bipartisan issue! The same is true of ticket market regulation: both Democratic and Republican controlled state legislatures have taken action this year to ban speculative tickets!

Ed Bott /
@edbott.com: If you live in one of the 11 states who haven't joined this lawsuit yet, write your AG. — We're looking at you, Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Montana, and North Dakota. [embedded post] @agtennessee: Case Update ‼️ Today, TN & the USDOJ welcomed ten additional states to our historic, bipartisan antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation/Ticketmaster — bringing the total number of co-plaintiffs to 41. Read the amended complaint below: ➡️ https://www.tn.gov/... [image] Tennessee State Government: TN AG Welcomes Additional Ten States to Historic Bipartisan Lawsuit Against Ticketmaster

Ny Ag /
@newyorkstateag: 🚨Ring the alarm: As part of our lawsuit against @LiveNation and @Ticketmaster, my office, @TheJusticeDept, and our group of AGs are now seeking money for fans who were overcharged by these companies' illegal monopoly over the concert and live event industry.

Moe Tkacik /
@moetkacik: New tidbit from DOJ's amended complaint against Live Nation/Ticketmaster on ubiquitous mogul Irving “Poison Dwarf” Azoff's ongoing collusion w/ the monopoly: LN paid Azoff's Oak View “significant annual payments” & also “incentive payments” for agreeing to act as its “pimp” [image]

Ethan Millman /
Rolling Stone: 10 More States Join DOJ's Live Nation Monopoly Lawsuit Reuters: More states join antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent Live Nation, seek triple the damages

The Media Leader:

Paramount says it will rebrand the UK's Channel 5 as just “5” and no longer merge My5 with Pluto TV, as part of plans to relaunch under one name by April 2025— Paramount is rebranding Channel 5 to just 5 as part of plans to relaunch the public-service broadcaster across linear …

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The Desk, Metro.co.uk, @sphilsmith, Broadband TV News, @scottygb, Cord Busters, Advanced Television, @thesimonc90, Deadline, Broadcast, WORLD SCREEN and TVNewsCheck

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Matthew Keys /
The Desk: Paramount to rebrand Britain's Channel 5 to simply “5”

Phil /
@sphilsmith: I have quite simply lost track of the amount of times this channel has switched between the names ‘5’, ‘Channel 5’ and of course ‘Five’. And it also doesn't matter in the slightest.

Scott Bryan /
@scottygb: BBC iPlayer ITV Player > ITV Hub > ITVX 4OD > All4 > Channel 4 Channel 5 > five > Channel 5 > 5 Dave > U&Dave

Colin Mann /
Advanced Television: Channel 5, My5 relaunching as 5

Max Goldbart /
Deadline: Channel 5 & Streamer My5 To Become ... 5

Kristin Brzoznowski /
WORLD SCREEN: Channel 5 & My5 Streamer To Rebrand As 5

Max Goldbart /
TVNewsCheck: Channel 5 & Streamer My5 To Become ... 5

New Yorker:

An interview with Univision's Jorge Ramos on his start at Univision, his evolving philosophy of interviewing, how his audience has changed, and more— The legendary newscaster on how the U.S. has changed—and how it has changed him. — For decades, his voice was omnipresent in Latino households.

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New York Daily News and @jorgeramosnews

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CNN:

Disney says a wrongful death lawsuit can now proceed to court, after initially arguing that the widower's Disney+ trial contract prohibited him from suing— Disney has reversed course on a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widower of a woman who died after eating at a resort restaurant, saying the matter can now proceed to court.

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Anna Betts /
The Guardian: Disney drops streaming waiver defense over woman's allergy death at resort

Jess Weatherbed /
The Verge: Disney gives up on trying to use Disney Plus excuse to settle a wrongful death lawsuit

Tony Maglio /
IndieWire: Disney Drops Weird Disney+ Subscriber Agreement Clause in Wrongful Death Case

Philip Marcelo /
Associated Press: Disney recalibrates legal strategy for allergy-death lawsuit, promises ‘sensitive approach’ after public uproar

Katrina Morgan /
KHOU-TV: Yes, Disney did argue a wrongful death lawsuit should be dropped in part because the plaintiff had a Disney+ account

Colin Kalmbacher /
Law & Crime: ‘We strive to put humanity above all’: Disney drops arbitration demand over wrongful death lawsuit after woman died from fatal food allergy

Emily Crane /
New York Post: Disney backtracks on tossing wrongful death lawsuit by NYU doctor's widower because of Disney+ subscription

Olivia Christie /
Daily Mail: Disney backtracks and agrees to court hearing for lawsuit brought by widower Jeffrey Piccolo whose doctor wife died from a severe allergic reaction at theme park's restaurant @discussingfilm: Disney has decided to waive its right to arbitration & allow the matter to proceed in court for the recent wrongful death lawsuit where they attempted to use a widower's Disney+ subscription to arbitrate. “At Disney, we strive to put humanity above all other considerations.” [image] @culturecrave: Disney will waive arbitration in its wrongful death suit They initially sought to dismiss the case by citing the widower's Disney+ subscription — It will now proceed in court “At Disney, we strive to put humanity above all other considerations” [image]

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: Disney has given up on making the legal argument that they get to kill your wife if you've ever signed up for Disney Plus. [image]

Scott Gustin /
@scottgustin: NEW: In a new statement about the Raglan Road wrongful death lawsuit, Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D'Amaro says Disney will waive its right to arbitration and will allow the matter to proceed in court to “expedite a resolution for the family.” Full statement: [image]

Luke Bouma /
Cord Cutters News: Disney Agrees to Go to Court After Asking Judge to Throw Out a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Because of Disney+'s Terms & Conditions

Pavel /
@spavel.bsky.social: Unsurprisingly the “just because it's a free trial doesn't mean you won't pay with your life” argument didn't make it very far [embedded post]

Erik Pedersen /
Deadline: Disney Waives Arbitration In Allergy Death At Restaurant In Orlando Park; Matter Can “Proceed In Court”

David Norris /
@cdavidnorris: @DiscussingFilm This was always going to be a losing argument for Disney. They were trying to argue for arbitration to draw out the process and make it more expensive for the widower who was suing them for wrongful death. They waived their “right” to arbitration because of the public backlash.

Reuters:

Writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sue Anthropic, saying it misused their books and others' to train Claude— Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors …

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Plagiarism Today, Associated Press, New York Post and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

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Jonathan Bailey /
Plagiarism Today: 3 Count: And Another One... Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

Taylor Herzlich /
New York Post: Authors file lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic over copyright infringement

@maxwelltani:

Memo: Time CEO announces that the company is laying off 22 employees across several departments, including editorial, citing decreased ad budgets and more— In a memo to staff, Time magazine CEO Jess Sibley announces that the company is laying off 22 staff. Says the business is still struggling due to decreased ad budgets, drastic shifts in consumer behavior, changes to search and social algorithms, and overall economic uncertainty. [image]

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@tvgrimreaper, @jmrivera02, @rafat, @charlesarthur and The Hollywood Reporter

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@tvgrimreaper: If you can't trust a benevolent billionaire owner to fund your money losing publication, who can you trust? @rafat: So blame everything *except* the fact that Time as a package, as a cultural artifact has been obsolete for years now, decades even. And no amount of retooling will help on that, if you want to mine the IP for what's left of it globally, the only way to go.

Charles Arthur /
@charlesarthur: It's not a death spiral, it's an end-of-life circle of decreasing radius

Reuters:

The UK CMA accepts Meta's changes to its ad rules to ensure Marketplace advertisers' data is not used to improve Marketplace, without having to opt in or out— Britain's competition watchdog said on Tuesday it has accepted Meta's (META.O) proposed changes to the way it uses the data …

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GOV.UK and @cmagovuk, more at Techmeme »

The Guardian:

Up to 85 employees from outlets including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, and the AFR have taken voluntary redundancy after Nine announced a cut of 200 jobs— Up to 85 staff take a voluntary redundancy after Nine newspapers announced it was cutting 200 jobs

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@gingergorman, @earleyedition and Crikey

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@gingergorman: This is so sad. And especially if you look at the thousands of journos who've lost their roles in the last 15 years. An industry in decay. Senior journalists leave Sydney Morning Herald, Age and AFR in decade's biggest talent exodus https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

Dave Earley /
@earleyedition: In the biggest exodus of editorial talent since Fairfax shed more than 150 journalists in 2012, up to 85 journalists, most of them senior, have taken a voluntary redundancy from mastheads including the SMH, Age and AFR. New from @meadea https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

Reuters:

Sources: India's antitrust body reaches an initial assessment that the $8.5B merger of Reliance and Disney harms competition due to their cricket rights— India's antitrust body has reached an initial assessment that the $8.5 billion India merger of Reliance and Walt Disney media assets …

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Variety

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Deadline:

A New York judge allows Julia Ormond's lawsuit against Disney, CAA, and Miramax over an alleged 1995 sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein to move forward— “Upon the foregoing documents, and oral argument having been held before the court on May 20, 2024, it is ordered that the motions …

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Jeremy Fuster /
The Wrap: Disney, CAA, Miramax Motion to Dismiss Harvey Weinstein Sex Assault Suit Fails @davidandrews808: @MattBelloni Maybe you'll address when appropriate- but why would CAA have let it get this far? This seems like an obvious case to settle, and now the number on the settlement is going up? (Now I will go and look if Ormond was even willing to settle)

Krysten Swensen /
Inside the Magic: Judge Denies Disney's Request to Dismiss Harvey Weinstein Lawsuit @effoff1988: Disney, CAA & Miramax are royally screwed and absolutely won't let this get to trial because they know full well the discovery stage would end them all. Julia Ormond is about to receive a BIG out of court settlement offer, maybe even as soon as tomorrow but definitely this week. [image] @charterhousesq: @MattBelloni @Bencjacobs Timely moment to revisit this story by #NYT some 7 years ago, headlined: 'Weinstein's Complicity Machine' https://www.nytimes.com/... [December 5, 2017] Numerous early references to #CAA, who in response issued a general, encompassing apology https://deadline.com/... / see excerpt ⤵️ [image]

Kevin Mintzer /
@kevinmintzer: This is an important and precedent-setting win for our client, Julia Ormond. We look forward to proving her claims and showing how CAA, Disney, and Miramax enabled Harvey Weinstein's predatory conduct.

Kyle Smith /
@rkylesmith: In 1994, Julia Ormond was the Hollywood It Girl, the leading lady in 2 big projects - as Sabrina in SABRINA, Guenevere in FIRST KNIGHT. Then they lost interest. What happened to her? Harvey.

Charisma Madarang /
Rolling Stone: Disney, CAA Fail to Dismiss Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Suit From Julia Ormond

Matthew Belloni /
@mattbelloni: Judge just denied motions to dismiss Julia Ormond's big lawsuit vs Harvey Weinstein, Miramax and CAA. On CAA, the court ruled: “These allegations, taken together, suggest that CAA knew or had reason to know of a potential assault by Weinstein.” Yikes.

Stacy Perman /
Los Angeles Times: Judge denies motions to dismiss case by actress who claims CAA, Disney enabled assault by Harvey Weinstein

Gene Maddaus /
Variety: Julia Ormond Can Sue Disney and CAA for Failing to Protect Her From Harvey Weinstein

Winston Cho /