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...

France's competition regulator Autorité de la concurrence has enjoined tech company Meta to resume negotiations news content rights owners "in good faith" and provide them with the information necessary to assess the remuneration they are owed by July 23. The regulator's move follows a complaint filed by the French Société des droits voisins de la presse (Society for newspapers' neighbouring rights - DVP), which manages rights on behalf of over 800 news outlets, and the Alliance de la presse d’i...

A large coalition of Australia’s creators and their respective creative industry businesses has issued an open letter calling for AI platforms to ask permission and remunerate creators when their works are used to train AI large models. "Our work is the fuel that powers the AI economy. Without it there are no large language models, no AI products of any kind. All of it has been fed into AI systems without asking us and without paying us," reads the letter, that has been signed so far by over 12,...