The publishers claimed the online giants would remain a significant competitive constraint on a merged business, something the commission didn't … The publishers talked up the constraint caused by Google and Facebook, pointing to the two-sided market of competing for an audience as well as vying
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Whereas today's digital news platforms must abandon ad sales for small-scale audiences who read, donate, and subscribe, VCs must bet on businesses with the potential for not just large-scale, but exponential growth. (It's not just publishers who are competing against Facebook and Google.) In 2017
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GumGum, the artificial intelligence company, has signed a series of new publisher deals and boosted its Australian reach to 12 million in Australia. GumGum has recently added Nine Entertainment, SBS and Vice to its growing portfolio of Australian publishers, more than doubling its network since
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“This is a massive victory for songwriters, composers, music publishers and the entire industry,” said BMI President Mike O'Neill. “We have said from the very beginning that BMI's consent decree allowed for fractional licensing….We thank all the songwriters, composers, publishers and organizations who
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The fight between Nashville-based BMI and the government has continued for two years. Songwriters and publishers argued that the DOJ's decision under the Obama administration to enforce so-called 100 percent licensing rules would have complicated their professions and damaged an industry they
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