Disney

• Disney acquired the rights to ‘CoComelon’. Now it’s trying to find the next one.
• Disney signs $1 billion licensing deal with OpenAI, is big mad at Google

  "Google has deeply embedded its infringing video and image AI Services into its broad family of products and services actively used by over a billion people," Disney said in a cease-and-desist. "This multiplies the scope of Google’s infringement, and harm to Disney’s intellectual property, not to mention the ill-gotten benefits Google enjoys from its unauthorized exploitation of Disney’s copyrighted works."

  
• Disney fined $10 million for failing to label YouTube videos as “made for kids”

  Like YouTube's, Disney's FTC settlement comes with more than a multimillion-dollar payment as penalty. Per the terms, it's required to form an Audience Designation Program that will manually review each video it publishes to YouTube and apply a 'made for kids' or 'not made for kids' label. That means no more channel-wide labeling.

  
• Disney’s suing YouTube to keep it from poaching a key exec. Will that actually work?

  
• Disney takes $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games to build an “entertainment universe”
• Alisa Bowen Promoted To Disney Streaming’s EVP Of Business Operations
• Disney Programming Is Back On YouTube TV Thanks To New Agreement
• Disney CTO Joe Inzerillo Exits To Lead Tech At SiriusXM
• Disney Streaming Services Names Ajay Arora VP Of Product, Commerce, And Experimentation
• ‘Mulan’ Is Coming To Disney+—But Subscribers Must Pay $29.99 To Watch It
• Insights: Doing Business In China Vexes Companies That Depend On Creators — And Creators Themselves
• Disney And Amazon Are Arguing About Ad Inventory, Which Could Delay Disney+ Arriving On Fire TV (Report)