Entertainment Technology Briefing: August 2024

Legal updates

Commission sends preliminary findings to Meta over its “Pay or Consent” model for breach of the Digital Markets Act (European Commission)

CMA publishes progress update on the mobile browsers and cloud gaming market Investigation (Competition and Markets Authority)

TikTok fined £1.875m for providing inaccurate data on safety controls (Ofcom)

Impact of the EU AI Act on the creative industries (Simkins)

CAP issues guidance on using AI as a marketing term (ASA)

MusicTech

Spotify adds seven million subscribers in Q2 and reports record Profitability (Music Week)

How Eminem used AI to recreate Slim Shady voice on new album, The Death of Slim Shady (MusicTech)

Major labels welcome US NO FAKES act as ‘landmark legislation’ (Music Week)

AI

Only a brief mention of AI regulation in the King’s Speech (Gov.uk)

Privacy watchdog says it’s ‘surprised’ by Elon Musk opting user data into Grok AI training (TechCrunch)

The Deepfake Dilemma: protecting high-net-worth individuals from the emerging threat (Simkins)

How a Berlin artist is navigating the complexities of copyright infringement in the digital age (Simkins)

Video games strike rumbles on in row over AI (BBC)

Meta launches open-source AI app ‘competitive’ with closed rivals (The Guardian)

Web3

All wrong for Wright – Dr Wright found not to be Bitcoin inventor (Simkins)

Law Commission publishes scoping paper on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (Law Commission)

Data

CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says (BBC)

Google U-turn over long-running plan to ditch cookies (BBC) Simkins’ commentary on story: Google keeps its hands in the cookie jar: deprecation of third-party cookies cancelled

School used facial recognition illegally in canteen (BBC)

Information Commissioner’s Annual Report and Financial Statements 2023/24 (ICO)