Entertainment Technology Briefing: May 2025
Welcome to our round-up of our top selection of legal updates and technology news relevant to the media and entertainment industry in April.
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Legal updates
Ofcom unveils rules for protecting children online (BBC)
EU fines Apple and Meta total of €700 million for breaches of Digital Markets Act (Politico)
UK Government publishes cyber governance code of practice (Computer Weekly)
US Congress passes bill to tackle explicit deepfake images (The Washington Post)
MusicTech
YouTube launches AI music tool for copyright-free video soundtracks (Music Business Worldwide)
Splice bets on AI-powered music creation with Spitfire Audio deal (Music Business Worldwide)
AI
We will all be bosses of AI employees in future, says Microsoft (The Guardian)
OpenAI unveils Flex processing for cheaper and slower AI tasks (TechCrunch)
Fans want more transparency over AI-generated music, survey finds (Music Week)
Google and OpenAI look towards ‘freedom’ from copyright (Music Business Worldwide)
AI-powered legal analysis platform Supio raises $60 million in funding (TechCrunch)
Web3
Donald Trump meme coin soars after exclusive dinner invite for holders (The Guardian)
How Bitcoin mining became unprofitable (PCWorld)
Metaverse
What happened to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse? (The Independent)
Data
Solar systems: the plan to put data centres on the moon (BBC)
Law firm fined £60,000 over cyber attack (ICO)
Electricity demand for data centres set to double in five years (Sky News)
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