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Guest Column: Astounding tech advancements aside, smart TVs’ greatest power may lie in their ability to bring people together.

Despite a subpar opening for “Mickey 17,” Bong Joon Ho’s expensive sci-fi comedy, Warner Bros. needs such talented filmmakers to account for the lapse in steady franchise output.

Music publishing is still closing massive catalog deals and taking on new territory, despite the fall of Hipgnosis a year ago.

YouTube’s new “Premium Lite” tier fits with the wider pattern indicating its ambition to beat Netflix at the streaming game.

Giving original series on SVOD platforms secondary windows elsewhere is no longer unthinkable — and even becoming more common.

More studio closures from Hollywood-adjacent companies and a hesitance on the TV side to continue adapting gaming IP after success stories like “The Last of Us” and “Fallout” serve as reminders that there is no golden age yet for these industries coexisting.

Total audience for the Oscars may have stalled, but 18-49 viewership indicates future growth lies beyond linear TV.

Our new special report examines emerging technical methods that can allow media rights holders to protect or monetize their content as data for training AI models.

It’s been over a month since TikTok’s short-lived?government-mandated ban?cleared a path for a crop of would-be rival apps to pop up on the radar of U.S. consumers. But with an extension deadline on the ban looming in early April, the data shows they’ve all since come and gone — except for one dark horse alternative.

Guest Column: Despite a still unsettled legal environment, 2024 saw the first stirrings of a?commercial licensing market?between AI companies and rights owners for the use of copyrighted works to train generative AI models. While encouraging, the deals so far have been limited in scope and scale, raising questions as to how widely the model those deals have followed can be applied beyond their immediate reach.