Entertainment Technology Briefing: November 2024
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Welcome to our round-up of our top selection of legal updates and technology news relevant to the media and entertainment industry in October.
If you are looking for advice in relation to any of the issues mentioned, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Legal updates
New Data (Use and Access Bill) unveiled to improve public services and boost the UK economy by £10 billion (Gov.uk) and ICO responds to the Data (Use and Access) DUA Bill (ICO)
ICO issues report on quantum technologies (ICO)
Britain and America set up joint working group to improve children’s online safety (Reuters)
EU considers including Elon Musk’s business empire to calculate potential X fine (FT)
US judge orders Google to open app store to rivals (BBC)
US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case (FT)
MusicTech
Tidal layoffs could affect a quarter of staff (Music Business Worldwide)
UnitedMasters strikes direct licensing deal with TikTok… as clock ticks down on Merlin’s agreement with ByteDance platform (Music Business Worldwide)
Suno, with a $500m valuation, has admitted training its AI on copyrighted music (Music Business Worldwide)
AI
TikTok slashes hundreds of jobs globally as it shifts focus to AI content moderation (Music Business Worldwide)
Universal Music enters into partnership with AI music start-up (Music Business Worldwide)
Apple proceeds with staggered release of AI feature (BBC)
OpenAI Brings Search Features to ChatGPT in Challenge to Google (Bloomberg)
Web3
Hunt for Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto hits another dead-end (BBC)
Data
Meta must limit data for personalised ads - EU court (BBC)
Irish Data Protection Commission fines LinkedIn Ireland €310 million (Irish Data Protection Commission)
Data Protection Commission launches inquiry into Ryanair’s Customer Verification Process (Irish Data Protection Commission)
