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Hollywood studios have sued IPTV services AllAccessTV and Quality Restreams for copyright infringement

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Hollywood studios have filed a lawsuit against two video streaming sites — AllAccessTV (AATV), represented by Dwayne Anthony Johnson, and Quality Restreams — that are accused of infringing on their copyrights by providing access to content produced and owned by the companies without licenses. AATV is described in the lawsuits as "an infringing Internet Protocol television (“IPTV”) and video-on-demand (“VOD”) service that sells — through an expanding network of resellers — unauthorised...

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Emmanuel is a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, blogger and media consultant, specialising in the entertainment business and cultural trends. He was the US editor for British music industry trade publication Music Week. Previously, he was the editor of Impact, a magazine for the music publishing community (2007-2009), the global editor of US trade publication Billboard (2003-2006), and the editor in chief of Billboard’s sister publication Music & Media (1997-2003).

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US music publishers and X Corp. file joint stipulations of dismissal

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July 19, 2026

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A group of music publishers and Elon Musk's X Corp. have filed joint stipulations of dismissal in the various legal cases involving the two parties starting in 2023. Terms of the settlements were not disclosed. A stipulation for dismissal was filed with the US District Court for the Middle Disctrict of Tennessee, Nashville Division. In the July 16 filing, Plaintiffs and Defendant "jointly stipulate to dismissal of all claims in this matter with prejudice under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), wi...

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US states sue to block the merger of Paramount with Warner Bros. Discovery

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July 14, 2026

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California and eleven other US states have filed a lawsuit with the US District Court for Northern District of California in Sacramento to block the acquisition by Paramount Skydance Corp. of Warner Bros. Discovery in a $110 billion transaction that will combine Hollywood studios Paramount and Warner Bros., video streaming services HBO Max and Paramount Plus, as well as dozens of TV channels. In the lawsuit, the attorney generals of the 12 states claim that the proposed merger, "would extinguish...

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US newspaper publishers file copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for using content to train AI models

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July 13, 2026

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A coalition of US newspaper publishers, representing more than 400 publications, has filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, in which they allege that the two tech companies have “systematically” sourced news content from the publishers' websites with web crawlers, without authorisation and compensation, to train their AI models. “Both OpenAI and Microsoft caused hundreds of thousands of the Publishers’ works to be copied and...

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