How digital entertainment companies are making new money from old videos

Companies like Viacom Digital Studios and Pocket.watch are syndicating videos previously published to YouTube on other platforms like Snapchat, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video. Jukin Media, The Young Turks and Tastemade have mined their libraries to stitch together 24/7 streaming channels for their OTT apps and digital linear video platforms like YouTube TV and Pluto TV.

Source: ‘Skinning the cat 30 ways’: How digital entertainment companies are making new money from old videos – Digiday

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AI Companies Get the Picture

By Paul Sweeting

One of the biggest challenges facing copyright owners in grappling with the rapid development of generative AI technology, apart from a murky legal status, has been market failure, as discussed here in previous posts. The amount of existing material needed to train gen-AI models is so great, and so varied, that gauging the value of any one piece of it to establish a market price for it for licensing purposes is often effectively impossible. One group of rights owners is finding willing buyers among AI companies, however. An active, albeit for various reasons mostly sotto voce market has begun to emerge for the use of images held in large photo archives and by photo agencies and social media platforms, complete with per-unit industry and at least a nod toward creator attribution... Read More >>

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