Eunice Kim, who has served as Netflix's Chief Product Officer since 2023, has announced that she is leaving the streaming company. A search for a replacement has been launched. In the interim, Chief Technology Officer Elizabeth Stone will take on the role. 
 "Over the past five years, we grew the business together from 200 million to over 300 million members by successfully launching and scaling many major growth initiatives, including the ads plan. We also redesign...

Two of France's main news organisations representing over 800 newspapers and magazines -- APIG, the general news media alliance, and SEPM, representing magazine publishers –- have launched a “coordinated action” against companies providing datasets used to train generative artificial intelligence services, such as ChatGPT, Common Crawl, C4 and Oscar.
The organisations have a three-pronged strategy: i) Methodically and systematically monitor "the massive presence of news content in these dat...

AMRA, the Kobalt-owned global digital licensing collection society, has entered into a direct multi-territorial, multi-year licensing deal with streaming service Spotify. The deal is "designed to deliver greater flexibility and value to AMRA’s songwriter and publisher clients," according to a statement from AMRA.
The two companies said that the deal represents "a broad direct licence for digital mechanical and performing rights," and its framework "reflects a genuinely collaborative effort betwe...