Media
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As recently promised, Facebook and Instagram are cracking down on fake social media engagement, lodging a suit in California federal court Thursday seeking $10 million from a New Zealand company and its owners for allegedly selling fake “likes” to Instagram users… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An internet infrastructure company run by Russian tech exec Aleksej Gubarev played a role in the 2016 hacking of Democratic Party leaders, according to a report by a former government cybersecurity official that was unsealed Thursday as part of a defamation suit Gubarev had brought against BuzzFeed Inc… Read this piece in its entirety at…
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Some of the most powerful companies in the music streaming business, including Google, Spotify and Pandora, announced on Thursday that they will challenge the Copyright Royalty Board’s ruling last year ordering streaming services to pay more in so-called mechanical royalties to songwriters and publishers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Several executives at CBS Corp., including ex-CEO Leslie Moonves, sold more than $200 million of company stock before its price began to tank amid reports of widespread workplace sexual harassment, including by Moonves, investors alleged in a consolidated class action filed Monday in New York federal court. Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Sony Pictures Television Inc. is trying to kill off “Days of our Lives” to boost its own long-running soap opera, “The Young and the Restless,” the producer of the six-decade-old show alleged in a suit filed Monday in California state court seeking at least $20 million in damages… Read this piece in its entirety at…
Mike LaSusa 