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The San Francisco-based newsletter platform plans to spend north of $30 million to entice big comic scribes to leave publishers — and let them keep rights to their own IP: “They are paying for names.” Substack is part of a wave of platforms — including Amazon-owned ComiXology — that are seeking to create comics for Read More …
The U.K. regulator Competition and Markets Authority has raised concerns around Sony Music’s purchase of Kobalt’s recorded-music services division AWAL, after the first phase of its investigation into the acquisition. The investigation found that the distribution of recorded music in the U.K. is currently “highly concentrated,” with the three major labels accounting for the majority of the market and Read More …
Non-fungible tokens or NFTs are technological capitalism’s answer to its own limitations. By overcoming the physical nature of virtually every object and allowing their safe storage on a digital blockchain has changed how investors and buyers perceive the market in a world dictated by all-things-digital. Source: Non-Fungible Tokens: How ‘Punk’ Crypto Trend Gave Rise To Read More …
The Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance has compiled a list of amendments to improve the Digital Service Act proposal, which is the official successor to the E-Commerce Directive. The group calls for staydown requirements, to ensure that pirated material stays offline. In addition, it would like to see repeat copyright infringers being permanently disconnected. Source: Anti-Piracy Alliance Read More …
More than a decade ago a student in Kazakhstan working on a research paper found that she needed access to scientific articles that were hidden behind a paywall. By 2011, that need had developed into the project we now know as Sci-Hub – ‘The Pirate Bay of Science’. To celebrate ten years online, operator Alexandra Read More …