He has written 14 books, including the best-sellers Aftershock, The Work of Nations and Beyond Outrage and, most recently, Saving Capitalism. He is also a founding editor of The American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
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Dan Mintz's DMG Entertainment has taken full control of Valiant Entertainment, the indie publisher of comic books and graphic novels with a library of more than 2,000 characters. DMG had previously pacted with Valiant back in 2015 to develop properties for features, television, publishing and licensing.
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A federal copyright ruling will see streaming music services like Apple Music paying higher rates to songwriters and music publishers. The ruling by The Copyright Royalty Board was made in the light of evidence presented during a court case last year …
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“I am not looking on expanding from a publishing standpoint but from a motion picture standpoint.” While not as massive compared with the Big Two, comic industry parlance for giants Marvel and DC, Valiant does have a robust library of 2,000 characters and publishes an award-winning line of comics
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Nokia has unveiled its new ReefShark chipsets, which leverage in-house silicon expertise to dramatically reduce the size, cost and power consumption of operators' networks and meet the massive compute and radio requirements of 5G. Incorporating Nokia Bell Labs artificial intelligence (AI)
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Several weeks after Mark Zuckerberg dropped the blog post heard round the world, even publishers working closely with Facebook are trying to figure out what all the changes mean for media distribution. After all, most large-scale publishers rely on the social network to drive a considerable share of
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DistroKid logo DistroKid is launching a publishing administration service. Details are still be worked out, but the new service should be available within weeks, DistroKid founder Phil Kaplan tells Hypebot. Publishing administration joins an expanding set of add-on services offered by the indie digital
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PPL chief executive Peter Leathem has told Music Week that its services for neighbouring rights “can't be beaten” as the collection society announces a new agreement with Rita Ora. The Atlantic Records recording artist has signed with the collective management organisation (CMO) for the
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The new rules, announced over the weekend by the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), dictate that over the next five years, streaming music platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora and others must pay 15.1 percent of their revenue to songwriters and publishers. That's up from just 10.5
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On January 28, 1977, Stephen King published a book that came to be considered a modern horror masterpiece: The Shining. Not soon after, the book began a long and complex road to the screen. King had already scored two paperback best sellers with his first two novels, Carrie (1974) and 'Salem's
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With almost 2 billion monthly active users worldwide, it is an important tool for publishers who want to attract more audience. With Facebook, publishers have an easy platform with unparalleled traffic among which they distribute their content. Facebook provided grounds to many publishers for growing
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In his model, Brave would control the exchange, take its cut and pay publishers based on the value advertisers pay for the attention users pay to their content and pages. From the beginning, Eich has said users would “also get a share for their attention if they choose to receive ads. “From that share, they
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