The EU faces an agonizing choice between taking the deal on Trump’s desk or trying to drive a harder bargain.

"Piracy is piracy," says Disney's chief legal officer, as the studios aim to show that tools allowing personalized AI slop creations of characters like Darth Vader or Shrek run afoul of their IP.

While the global focus is on America’s reversal of long-standing abortion rights, a surprising number of European women still have to travel to terminate pregnancies.

In March, Lord Clement-Jones was appointed Chair of the ALCS Board. We sat down with him to discuss his extensive background, the use of creators’ works by AI companies, and his focus for ALCS in the ...

Academics and economists have long warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs and upend the global economy. Now that call is coming from inside the house.

La plateforme reproche à l’entreprise d’intelligence artificielle d’avoir utilisé sans son consentement des données issues des discussions entre ses utilisateurs pour entraîner des modèles de langage.

Media analyst Doug Shapiro explains how generative AI is transforming entertainment economics and redefining what "quality" means to consumers.

Les représentants des studios, des réalisateurs et des techniciens du cinéma font allégeance à l’administration Trump, qui rêve de torpiller tout ce qui limite la domination des plateformes…

16/04/2025 - The study highlights that European broadcasters and non-European video-sharing platforms each captured nearly half of 2023’s TV and OTT advertising revenues

17/04/2025 - Despite a strained economic and political context, local cinema is doing well according to the report by the federation’s Film and Audiovisual Centre

15/04/2025 - The event held in Geneva focused on worldwide issues affecting audiovisual authors, and called for enhanced legal safeguards, fair compensation and policy reforms

Long seen as untouchable in Brussels, the GDPR is next on the list of the EU’s crusade against overregulation.

12/03/2025 - The country’s media landscape is marked by a growing adoption of SVoD, but strategies are needed for operators to retain subscribers, and to attract both younger and older audiences

Les syndicats des éditeurs et des auteurs français accusent le géant américain d’utiliser leurs œuvres sans autorisation pour développer des IA et saisissent le tribunal judiciaire de Paris.

06/03/2025 - Notably, streaming revenue in Europe is expected to grow by 37% to €38.4 billion by 2029, with Netflix remaining the most important contributor

24/02/2025 - Michiel Blanchart’s feature debut reigned supreme in all of the categories it was nominated in

25/02/2025 - BERLINALE 2025: The panel, divided into two sessions, delved into the topic with the help of a group of experts made up of AI policy makers and creators

Architect of copyright law says EU is ‘supporting big tech instead of protecting European creative ideas’

Recent mini-scandals surrounding 'Emilia Pérez' and 'The Brutalist' illustrate the fear of the tech in Hollywood, but internationally 'there’s an undercurrent of excitement.'

18/02/2025 - BERLINALE 2025: The continent’s film industry has witnessed a year of stabilisation following the pandemic, as two in-depth EFM presentations demonstrated

18/02/2025 - BERLINALE 2025: The new tool aims to be a hub for knowledge and experience sharing, representing a significant step towards specialised training for European audiovisual professionals

Google and Meta are leading the charge against a “code of practice” governing tools like Gemini, ChatGPT and Llama.

04/02/2025 - The country’s government increases support for film and series productions, enhancing its competitiveness in the international co-production market and adapting to the streaming era

‘People think we hang out by the beach and drink martinis. I have no fun,’ says Delpy.

Today's Brussels media landscape is like when pioneers and opportunists risked their lives to get to the gold-rich rivers of California, writes Javier Espinoza.

27/01/2025 - A landmark four-year agreement with the French government has cemented the streamer’s role in supporting local audiovisual industries and broadening its European creative output

28/01/2025 - At TV Drama Vision, Guy Bisson delved into the outlook for the industry as the era of peak TV comes to an end, as well as the implications for global content production and consumption

According to reports, Netflix seems to be optimizing at least some of its original content for background viewing.

White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

This isn’t innovation it’s exploitation. Big Tech uses AI to scrape copyrighted works, blame China, erode creators’ rights, all under the guise of global competitiveness

The 'Parasite' director was joined by actor Robert Pattinson in Seoul.

23/01/2025 - The alliance of nine award-winning film and television production companies from Europe and beyond has unveiled the participants chosen for the second edition of its pre-writing workshop

23/01/2025 - Jacques Audiard’s film spearheads the list with 13 nominations, with The Brutalist following with 10; The Substance, I’m Still Here and Flow surprise with more nods than expected

17/01/2025 - The transformed fund marks a restructuring of the country’s creative sector support, introducing expanded incentives and new funding categories to address evolving demands across industri...

21/01/2025 - Titles vying for the Golden Bear include European (co-)productions helmed by the likes of Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Léonor Serraille, Dag Johan Haugerud, Radu Jude and Richard Linklater

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Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company’s Llama AI models to use a data set of pirated ebooks and articles for training. The case, Kadrey v.…

One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.