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Netflix is suing Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, the duo behind The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical over copyright infringement, as first reported by Deadline. The streaming giant filed the complaint in a Washington, DC district court just days after Barlow and Bear held a live, sold-out show dedicated to the album. After Bridgerton’s 2020 debut, Barlow and Bear began creating music based on the Netflix original series and promoting the endeavor on TikTok, where it quickly gained popularity. As fans requested more…

YouTube wants to quickly ramp up the number of short-form “Shorts” videos available on its platform in order to better compete with TikTok. To aid with this effort, the company is today rolling out a new creator tool that turns existing YouTube videos into Shorts in a matter of moments. The update, now available on YouTube’s mobile app, allows a video’s creator to easily select a segment of any video they’ve uploaded previously, then publish that clip as YouTube Shorts content. The company was already converting…

YouTube is trying to make it even easier for creators to turn their longer videos into Shorts formatted for the platform's TikTok competitor, by adding a new “Edit into a Short” tool to its iOS and Android app. It’ll let creators select up to 60 seconds from one of their videos and bring the clip into the Shorts editor, right from the YouTube app on iOS or Android. From there, they can add things like text, filters, as well as additional videos shot with the Shorts camera or pulled from their photo library. In an…

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the most recent television iteration of the world’s favorite terrapin heroes, generated a lot of buzz, from its initial announcement all the way through its two seasons on Nickelodeon. While the show did receive an arguably satisfying conclusion in 2020, it was later announced that an original Netflix film would continue where the series left off, bringing with it some shakeups in the Turtles’ team dynamic and the proper introduction of several franchise mainstays into the Rise…

The Annapurna Interactive Showcase 2022 took a somewhat different approach to the video game publisher summer showcase format. Instead of a fire hose of trailers, sizzle reels, and gameplay videos, Annapurna slowed it down a bit, doing all of the above while also taking time to show off the people who are making some of the best indie games in the industry. Here are the highlights of this year’s show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv7CUChuI_c Thirsty Suitors Thirsty Suitors from Outerloop Games features a…

https://madcavestudios.com/DC has already marked thirty years since the iconic “Death of Superman” storyline by killing off the entire Justice League in the pages of April’s Justice League #75. Now the publisher is reassembling the creative teams who brought the Man of Steel’s 1992 demise for an all-new anniversary one-shot. The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special will feature four stories from each of the creative teams who worked on the four Superman titles – Superman, Adventures of Superman, Action Comics,…

Meta Platforms Inc.’s META -1.55% Facebook will let content creators make money from videos with licensed music starting Monday, as the company ramps up its efforts to combat rival TikTok, the popular video-sharing app. Creators on Facebook will receive 20% of the revenue share through in-stream ads on videos that are longer than 60 seconds and use a song from the platform’s licensed music catalog, according to a company blog post.…

A new revenue sharing program from Meta now allows Facebook video creators to make money off of videos that include licensed music. On Monday, Meta announced via a blog post the launch of Music Revenue Sharing, a new program that lets creators earn money on videos that include “licensed music from popular artists.” Meta/Facebook Essentially, the new program means that video creators on Facebook are now allowed to earn a portion of “in-stream ad revenue” on videos they created but also added licensed music to. In the…

via Universal Adapting any beloved TV series for the big screen is a gamble, especially when there’s no guarantees what made the show popular the first time around is going to work when reinvented for a new generation. In the cast of Will Ferrell’s Land of the Lost, though, it would be an understatement to say original producers Sid and Marty Krofft were less than impressed. The original ran for three seasons between 1974 and 1976, which was followed by a small screen remake that landed a two-year stint on…

Mojang, creator of Minecraft, took a definitive stand against nonfungible tokens (NFTs) earlier this week, saying it has “no plans of implementing blockchain technology into Minecraft right now.”That’s an approach that’s contrary to what many video game makers have been taking in recent months, sometimes despite the protests of players. And it could be just the excuse a number of fence-sitters need to dodge the issue altogether.Of course, Mojang isn’t just any developer. Minecraft is one of the industry’s biggest games.…