StudioBinder.com – What is an Entertainment Lawyer
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www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-an-entertainment-lawyer-definition/

Areas Entertainment Lawyers Can Help With

– Navigating contracts
– Protecting Intellectual Property (IP)
– Connecting clients to other industry professionals (lawyers, managers, agents)

The salary ignorance that keeps many workers underpaid
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www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220204-the-salary-ignorance-that-keeps-many-workers-underpaid

According to a recent study, most people significantly underestimate what people are earning in similar jobs elsewhere. The researchers argue this holds back people from seeking better paid jobs or higher pay for their current role, and that it particularly disadvantages the lowest earners. They suggest that if workers were more aware of salary disparities, at least 10% of low-paying jobs would simply not be viable at current pay rates.

Piesku – HTML5 and JavaScript Game Development Competition in just 13 kB
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https://js13kgames.com/entries/escape-2021

 

https://js13kgames.com/games/escape-2021/index.html

 

CONTROLS

– Desktop: ARROWS to move, SPACE to grab objects.
– Mobile: HOLD to move, DOUBLE-TAP to grab objects.

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AT&T to Spin Off WarnerMedia in Merger with Discovery
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www.awn.com/news/att-spin-warnermedia-merger-discovery

Discovery CEO David Zaslav told CNBC that his goal is to hit “2-, 3-, 400 million homes over the long term” — twice the amount of subscribers currently boasted by Netflix. Even prior to the merger, WarnerMedia’s key holdings – Warner Bros., HBO, CNN, DC Comics, among others – control rights to the kinds of pop culture hits that incentivize subscriptions.

Video Games: who owns what
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Streaming Wars – Why Did Netflix’s Value Plunge By Over 20% Overnight
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www.cartoonbrew.com/business/why-did-netflixs-value-plunge-by-over-20-overnight-212642.html

Netflix is still leading by some way, with 221.8 million subscribers at the end of 2021. Amazon’s Prime Video had around 175 million active streaming users by Q1 last year, although it is not exclusively a streaming service. Disney+ had 118.1 million subs as of October 2021, and is targeting 230–260 million by September 2024.

Netflix’s stock price fell over 20% in after-hours trading, wiping nearly $45 billion from its market capitalization. … Disney shares are down nearly 6% this morning, Roku around 6%, and Viacom 5%. Anxiety spread as some investors worried about how much more the streaming market as a whole can grow. “They’re saying the streaming wars are over,” Rich Greenfield told CNBC’s Fast Money.

The Color of Infinite Temperature
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This is the color of something infinitely hot.

Of course you’d instantly be fried by gamma rays of arbitrarily high frequency, but this would be its spectrum in the visible range.

johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/the-color-of-infinite-temperature/

This is also the color of a typical neutron star. They’re so hot they look the same.
It’s also the color of the early Universe!

This was worked out by David Madore.

The color he got is sRGB(148,177,255).
www.htmlcsscolor.com/hex/94B1FF

And according to the experts who sip latte all day and make up names for colors, this color is called ‘Perano’.

VES – 2021 STUDIO PLATFORM SURVEY REPORT
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Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
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www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633

The fusion announcement is great news but sadly it won’t help in our battle to lessen the effects of climate change.

There’s huge uncertainty about when fusion power will be ready for commercialisation. One estimate suggests maybe 20 years. Then fusion would need to scale up, which would mean a delay of perhaps another few decades.

And here’s the problem: the need for carbon-free energy is urgent – and the government has pledged that all electricity in the UK must be zero emissions by 2035. That means nuclear, renewables and energy storage.

In the words of my colleague Jon Amos: “Fusion is not a solution to get us to 2050 net zero. This is a solution to power society in the second half of this century.”

Brian Cox Breaks Down The Science Behind Don’t Look Up
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“… we spend more money on footballers’ salaries than our entire civilization protection plan…”