BITCHUTE (Steve Bannon's War Room) - MIKE DAVIS: If You Let AI Platforms Rip Off Creators, It Will Destroy The Creative Community In Amer
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NPR (Geoff Brumfiel) - A battle over 'Italian brainrot' could shape who owns AI art
A legal battle over what looks like a cartoon stick could help set the rules over whether creators can claim ownership of their AI-generated characters.
ABCNEWS - Inside the Democratic Party's effort to enlist social media influencers ahead of 2028
The Democratic National Committee is expanding its influencer program, partnering with more than 500 creators ahead of the midterms and the 2028 election.
NYTIMES (Victoria Kim and Laura Chung) - Australia to Impose Energy and Water Guardrails on Data Centers Amid A.I. Boom
The country will also seek to protect the rights of creators of work used to train artificial intelligence models, as it aims to impose parameters on the growing industry.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Subpoena Gate: Blake Lively actually tried to subpoena creators with 100 followers
Blake Lively couldn't wrap her head around the fact that people organically didn't like her narrative — so her team went on a wild goose chase, subpoenaing independent creators and checking bank statements. Dana Bowling reveals why she was "marked safe" from Subpoena Gate while creators with only 100 followers got targeted. Plus, we look at the unsealed script leaks that completely debunked the weight-shaming public defense. FOLLOW PAULA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Paula on Substack: [https://substack.com/@paulafroelichun](https://substack.com/@paulafroelichun)... Paula on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pfro Support our Guest! Follow Dana on…
NYTIMES (Brooks Barnes) - ‘Backrooms’ Is Part of a Boomlet in Movies From YouTube Creators
“Backrooms,” a psychological horror flick opening this weekend, is part of a wave of breakout films from fledgling directors who honed their instincts on YouTube.
LIBSYN - Practices in Podcasting w/ Sigh Swoon *TEASER*
Gabi Abrão aka Sigh Swoon stops by the pod to discuss posting, freebleeding, spirituality, and her new book, Practices in Apparition .
AXIOS (Sara Fischer) - Spotify bets on taste as differentiator in the AI era
Spotify believes it will become much more profitable over the next four years by leveraging AI to build a "large taste model" that supports interactive sharing over passive listening. Why it matters: The streamer spent the past four years proving it could turn its popularity into a meaningful business . Now, it wants to show Wall Street it can sustain and build on that momentum in the agentic era. Driving the news: Leaning into taste as a strategic differentiator will help the streaming giant create a stickier audio ecosystem and strike more partnerships that serve fans, executives told investors at an event in New York City on Thursday. - The company unveiled a new "Reserved" ticketing service, in partnership with Live Nation, that…
NYTIMES (Brian Raftery) - The Creator of ‘Shrek!’ Never Got to See the Memes
The writer and illustrator William Steig lived several lives before his book about a surly ogre became a Hollywood hit.
NPR (Bobby Allyn) - The clipping economy: How short-form video 'clippers' are overrunning the internet
Short-form clips of long interviews and shows are taking over the internet. But behind the sea of social media clips are marketplaces offering freelance clippers money per view.