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The academic community platform ResearchGate has removed 200,000 files in response to a wave of copyright complaints from publishers ACS and Elsevier. The takedowns go against ResearchGate’s open-access philosophy but, legally, it saw no other option than to comply. Source: ResearchGate Removes 200,000 ‘Infringing’ Files After Takedown Tidal Wave * TorrentFreak
Amortized spending on movies and TV shows by Netflix will rise 26% to $13.6 billion in 2021 and will reach $18.92 billion by 2025, according to predictions published Thursday by S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Kagan media research division. Of that $13.6 billion in amortized spending, $5.21 billion is earmarked for original productions, Kagan said. Source: Netflix Read More …
Last month, the administrator of Ditko’s estate filed a notice of termination on Spider Man, which first appeared in comic book form in 1962. Under the termination provisions of copyright law, authors or their heirs can reclaim rights once granted to publishers after waiting a statutory set period of time. According to the termination notice, Read More …
Netherlands-based Pythagoras Music Fund (PMF), which MBW has confirmed is worth €100 million ($117m), has just acquired 100% of the shares in Dutch music companies Nanada Music and Red Bullet from Dutch music industry legend Willem van Kooten. Nanada and Red Bullet are home to artists including Shocking Blue, Golden Earring and Focus. Source: $117m fund Read More …
For musicians who earn money from their music, 40% said that their overall income has increased since 2015, 32% said that it had decreased, and 28% said that it had stayed the same. Note the ‘overall’ word there: one of the report’s other findings is that for many musicians, recorded music is only a ‘small Read More …