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Drake Signs Exclusive, Multi-year Deal with Streaming Platform Caffeine
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Drake is getting into the streaming game. Streaming platform Caffeine signed a multi-year deal with the rapper to bring exclusive content to the platform. As part of the deal, Caffeine will work with Drake to produce and livestream rap battles with the “Ultimate Rap League” (URL), the world’s largest battle rap platform.…

One-Month Countdown to the New California Consumer Privacy Act: Is Your Business Ready?
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What is CCPA? The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) becomes effective January 1, 2020. It will provide California consumers with an unprecedented level of privacy protection while requiring affected businesses to both make certain privacy-related disclosures and to respond, without delay, to consumer’s requests regarding privacy.  To avoid penalties, and to minimize…

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Music Streaming Comes to Japan; But Will it Last?
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Two weeks ago, Line Corp.’s, the operators of Japan’s most popular messaging app, launched an in-app music streaming service called Line Music. Japan is the second-largest music market in the world after the United States, but its consumers have so far been global outliers, clinging to physical products like CDs and DVDs,…

If Content Is King, Then Netflix Rules!
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“Sometimes you’re up, and sometimes you’re down,” the old saying goes. And no one knows that better than Netflix. After several dismal years, and a crisis of investor confidence, the company is flying pretty high these days. The internet streaming giant has awoken and has come roaring back to life. Back in…

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Your Television is about to be Disrupted!
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Major broadcast networks including Disney’s ABC, News Corp, CBS, and Comcast’s NBC Universal are in a fight for their lives, so to speak. Their nemesis: Aereo, a start-up that offers live television streaming over the internet. Unlike satellite or cable companies, which pay the networks hefty retransmission/licensing fees, Aereo has found a…