Paramount Pictures is producing a live-action film based on Cyberpunk 2077, according to Deadline, as the studio finalizes its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The move signals a continued push by major studios to capitalize on high-profile video game franchises while artificial intelligence tools increasingly influence production workflows.
The freshest ticketing-technology development in the dossier is Digital Music News's 6 October report that a California festival cut ticketing fees by 99% after building its own platform on Shopify, and says it is now ready to expand. The dossier does not name the festival or give its ticket prices, so the mechanics, not the marketing, are what can be checked.
Od 1 października 2026 roku niemieckie zaświadczenie o niekaralności można zamówić w formie cyfrowego PDF, co potwierdza heise online. To najnowszy przykład szerszego trendu: instytucje i firmy przenoszą swoje usługi do internetu, ale płacą za to utratą kontroli nad fizycznymi nośnikami i danymi.
Tencent has signed a five-year lease worth about $7bn for roughly 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle, the Financial Times reported on 2 October. The deal says more about how compute is bought than about who owns the studios.
Maven Robotics says its mobile manipulators are now running 16 hours a day, five days a week, with up to 99% uptime, after raising $100 million since its 2024 founding and closing a Series A round last month. The Santa Clara company's account, published by The Robot Report on 1 October, lands in the same week as a €11 million European round for robot vision firm Inbolt and a forecast that physical AI will define 2027.
A Spanish figure skater won back the rights to skate to Minions music at the Winter Olympics. A German retailer went to court against Fender, and a Canadian legal database settled with an AI startup. None of these fights is really about piracy.
YouTube pulled Adele, Kendrick Lamar and Nirvana tracks on 28 September 2024 while negotiating with performing rights body SESAC. The tracks returned after a deal was announced two days later. This episode is one of several copyright disputes centered on licensing rather than piracy.
YouTube reached a new licensing deal with SESAC on Monday afternoon after hundreds of songs, from Adele to Nirvana, went dark over the weekend, while in Germany music retailer Thomann became the first company to sue Fender over its Stratocaster cease-and-desist campaign.
From songs pulled off YouTube to a Minions routine cleared for the Olympics, the copyright disputes of the past two years have been settled by platforms, sponsors and courts rather than by the law alone.
Thomann is suing Fender over its Stratocaster cease-and-desist campaign, the first company to take the guitar maker to court in a dispute that now touches retailers, custom builders and decades-old distribution deals.
YouTube reached a new licensing deal with SESAC on Monday after hit songs vanished from YouTube and YouTube Music over the weekend, while a Spanish figure skater won late clearance for a Minions routine and Thomann took Fender to court.
Six disputes from the past two years, from YouTube's SESAC blackout to a Dusseldorf ruling on the Stratocaster, show how rarely copyright fights end in a clean win for either side.