The directive instructs the CRTC to ensure the regulations do not apply to social media users whose business model is their own content, even if they use commercial songs in their videos. - CBC
"From those six minutes of animated dinosaurs, CGI has become so integrated into the industry to the extent that nearly all film and television productions feature some form of CGI practice." - The Conversation
Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries have purchased the awards, which will become a for-profit venture, and all 310 current voters will remain eligible to vote in 2024. Meanwhile, the not-for-profit HFPA, following years (decades, really) of scandal, will be dissolved. - Reuters
In a two day period following Netflix's roll out of the password sharing change last month saw the largest number of new Netflix account signups since Antenna began tracking subscriber data in 2019. - Mashable
Paulette Hamilton, MP for Birmingham, is not having it. "If they're going to take away without consultation, without actually speaking to anybody, just saying they're going to move the money elsewhere, it's just not good enough ."- BBC
Annecy's mayor: "The best response to this tragedy is to live even more forcefully and more intensely. ... With this conviction art and culture celebrates life, and enables us to change the world to make it a better place." - Variety
Indeed, the story is now, thanks to an LA Times investigation, famously ridiculous - which is completely unlike all the other "product" movies this summer, of course. - The New York Times
Many IATSE members are, have been, or will be out of work while the writers are on strike. This fund is to help them make it through. - Yahoo News (Deadline)
"This is Yellowstone’s gambit: It grounds its defense of the cowboy way of life in an identification with the very Native peoples those cowboys dispossessed." - Vulture
"One of the few Indian American women on television throughout her 19-season tenure, Lakshmi became known for her low-key banter, love of bold flavors and fearsome critiques of chefs who dared to try Indian dishes and fell short." - Los Angeles Times
Individual creators on TikTok, Insta, and other social media streams won't be required to have a certain percentage of Canadian content, or Indigenous rep - only commercial broadcasters are included in the law. - CBC
The 34-year-old show is ... good again? Like the old days. The really old days. "Aficionados know there were some great episodes even in the Dark Ages ... every episode feels like the 'Treehouse of Horror' Halloween special now in terms of its ambition." - Vulture
"Mark Walters, who hosts the Salem Radio Networks-distributed 'Armed American Radio' program, is suing OpenAI after its ChatGPT program accused him of embezzling funds from the Second Amendment Foundation. Walters says he is the victim of what is called an AI 'hallucination,' when the technology generates false events." - Inside Radio
Less than 10 million people watch cable news nightly; 155 million voted in the 2020 election. There simply aren’t enough rabid news consumers who are also staunch centrists to sustain a network. - The Atlantic
