SACD, the French rights society for drama repertoire, and visual artists' society ADAGP have concluded a new licensing agreement with Amazon's video service Prime Video. The deal includes Prime's subscription video-on-demand and its channel distribution activities.

"This agreement authorises Prime Video to use the SACD and ADAGP repertoires for the cinematographic and audiovisual works (fiction and animation) and for the visual art works included therein, and this from January 1, 2022,"...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the bipartisan Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA or bill S. 673), sponsored by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and John Kennedy (R-La.).

The aim of the legislation is to "support small, local, independent and conservative news publications by giving them a level playing field in negotiations with Big Tech platforms that often prevent them from making a profit from their work online," according to the co-sponsors of the bill.

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The Authors Guild has disclosed that online retailer Amazon has agreed to alter its return policy for eBooks.

So far, Amazon's return policy allowed readers to return ebooks within seven days of purchase, regardless of the amount read. Self-published or indie authors complained that they were losing on revenue twice when Amazon users were returning their books before the seven-day deadline, first because a returned book is a lost sale, and secondly because they had to incur the return costs...