Hollywood
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Disney sued Midjourney and licensed 200 characters to Sora, and the Sora deal lasted 103 days
Disney announced a three-year Sora licensing agreement with OpenAI on 11 December 2025, covering more than 200 characters and a US$1 billion equity in
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Netflix's price for Ben Affleck's 16-person AI startup was $587 million, disclosed in a July filing
Netflix bought InterPositive in March 2026 without disclosing terms. A securities filing on 17 July 2026 put the price at about US$587 million in cash
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The Academy's AI rules test human authorship, the Golden Globes' demand a written disclosure of every use
The Academy's rules for the 99th Oscars, announced 1 May 2026, require screenplays to be human-authored, require acting nominees to be demonstrably pe
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Hollywood's site blocking bill builds a court process most blocked sites will never attend
The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act, introduced on 29 January 2025 as H.R. 791, gives a foreign website 30 days to contest a blocking petition. Suppor
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A vacated New York conviction is why a California court has ordered Weinstein resentenced
On 26 June 2026 California's Second District Court of Appeal upheld Harvey Weinstein's Los Angeles conviction but set aside the 16 year sentence, beca
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The It Ends With Us case ended on privilege and employment status, not on the facts
Both sides claimed vindication. Judge Lewis J. Liman decided narrower things: that allegations in a lawsuit cannot be defamation, and that a performer
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