Entertainment Technology Briefing: March 2025
Welcome to our round-up of our top selection of legal updates and technology news relevant to the media and entertainment industry in February.
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Legal updates
Online safety crackdown will ‘drive out services’, claim Elon Musk and Google (The Telegraph)
Is DeepSeek using copyrighted music without permission to train AI? (Music Business Worldwide)
Apple faces likely French antitrust fine for privacy tool, sources say (Reuters)
Where does TikTok stand now and who is lining up to buy it? (TechCrunch)
Call for age restrictions on video game loot boxes (BBC)
MusicTech
Artists release ‘silent album’ in protest at UK government’s AI proposals (MusicTech)
Spotify Singles music franchise hits more than 10 billion streams (Music Week)
AI
EU pushes ahead with enforcing AI Act despite Donald Trump warnings (FT)
EU publishes guidelines for the EU AI Act (European Commission)
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US (Wired)
Anthropic raises $3.5B to fuel its AI ambitions (TechCrunch)
OpenAI launches video generation tool Sora in UK amid copyright row (The Guardian)
Musk v Altman: What might really be behind failed bid for OpenAI (BBC)
Metaverse
Why Meta’s ‘Horizon Worlds’ advert helps explain $70 billion loss on metaverse (Forbes)
Data
ICO issues direct marketing guidance tool (ICO)
UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data (BBC)
What Apple’s removal of UK Advanced Data Protection means for consumers (BBC)
