The New York Times Wednesday March 20, 2024
The owner of Sports Illustrated said it had chosen a new company to publish the magazine, a deal that could settle some of the recent friction at the storied publication and continue the print edition, notes The new York Times. Marketing company Authentic Brands Group, which owns the intellectual property rights to Sports Illustrated, said it had struck a long-term deal to license Sports Illustrated’s publishing rights to Minute Media, a digital-media company focused on sports. Sports Illustrated has been engulfed in turmoil for months, and employees had recently been advised that the monthly print edition would cease.
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Reuters Wednesday March 20, 2024
Photographer Lynn Goldsmith and the Andy Warhol Estate have agreed to resolve a copyright case over Warhol's work that led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of Goldsmith last year. The Warhol Estate will pay Goldsmith more than $21,000, including $11,000 in court costs, to end the case. Goldsmith has previously stated that she paid out more than $2.5 million in the legal battle, which centered on Warhol’s use of her photo of Prince as basis for a series of paintings. SCOTUS ruled that Warhol's estate was not immune from the lawsuit under the doctrine of fair use.
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TheSpAndroid Wednesday March 20, 2024
TikTok will be soon launching its own photo sharing platform, reports the SpAndroid blog. The discovery was made by app developer AssembleDebug, who spotted a code for a new “TikTok Photos” app when looking through the latest version of the video app’s code. The SpAndroid suggests that TikTok users will be automatically prompted to share their photo posts via a pop-up message in the TikTok app. The ByteDance-owned platform is competing on multiple fronts as it is planning to take on the likes of YouTube with 30-minute videos, notes TechCrunch.
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David Schonauer Wednesday March 20, 2024
European lawmakers have given final approval to the world's first major set of regulatory rules to govern artificial intelligence technology. The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of
the Artificial Intelligence Act last week, five years after regulations were first proposed. The act divides the technology into categories of risk, ranging from "unacceptable" -- which would result
in the technology banned -- to high, … Read the full Story >>
