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Open App Markets Act Takes Aim at Apple, Google Stores

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By: David Hoppe

2021-09-09

While Epic Games’ lawsuit against Apple has drawn attention to practices such as Apple’s 15 to 30 percent commission on app sales, in-app purchases, and Apple’s gag rule on advertising, Apple is not the only tech company developers and regulators have in their sights. Google, Valve, and other digital behemoths have also been accused of abusing their market dominance by imposing exorbitant fees upon app developers.

Gamma Law Infographic: The Streaming Wars

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By: David Hoppe

2020-02-11

2019 will be remembered as the year that the streaming wars began in earnest. Subscription video-on-demand (VOD) services are now big business and growing fast at the expenses of traditional…

Blockchain Use Cases: Media and Entertainment

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By: David Hoppe

2018-08-01

In this article, we look at the application of blockchain technology in the media and entertainment industry. Other articles in this series cover the use of blockchain in supply chain logistics and electronic health records.

Aramid and Relativity

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By: David Hoppe

2013-01-24

As we’ve written before, the recent slate deal trend among Hollywood financiers can be very tricky, even for the savviest of investors. The latest and probably best-known victim is Aramid Entertainment, a sophisticated hedge fund with a Cayman Islands address. In a lawsuit filed last year, Aramid claims it was ensnared in “one of the greatest heist stories ever told in the movie business.”

Anatomy of a Presale, Part 3: Terms of Agreement

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By: David Hoppe

2013-01-03

We continue our discussion of film finance and in particular foreign pre-sale agreements. This post will focus on the issues to be considered when structuring such agreements for distribution.

Anatomy of a Presale Part 2: Foreign vs Domestic

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By: David Hoppe

2012-08-16

The rights conveyed by a pre-sale discussed in Part 1 of this series typically include the theatrical and video release of a film. A release in the United States and Canada is considered “domestic.”

Anatomy of a Pre-Sale, Part 1: Introduction

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By: David Hoppe

2012-07-17

A pre-sale is technically a licensing of certain specified distribution rights for a film. Simply, a producer conveys some of his rights to a distributor, who is responsible for marketing and releasing the film to the public to generate revenue.

Hollywood Goes Corporate — Show Me The Money

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By: David Hoppe

2012-06-27

The last two decades have seen epic centralization of power in the media, particularly in the film industry. A handful of conglomerates now own all the major studios, with publicly…

China’s Golden Era of Film

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By: David Hoppe

2012-06-05

As Chinese consumers decide how to allocate their growing disposable incomes, movies are attracting increasingly large audiences, to the benefit of the American film industry. In the past five years,…