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Metal Gear games are temporarily disappearing from digital stores

The Verge

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater are disappearing from digital storefronts today, while Konami renews the licenses for the “historical archive footage” they contain, their publisher has announced. Other games hit by similar licensing issues haven’t been so lucky. Screenshot: Metal Gear Solid 2.

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How copyright lawsuits could kill OpenAI

Vox

This generation’s big copyright battle is pitting journalists against artificially intelligent software that has learned from and can regurgitate their reporting. The New York Times claims that OpenAI trained its model with copyrighted Times content and did not pay proper licensing fees.

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Avalara nabs nearly $1B in debt securities to fuel growing tax compliance software business

GeekWire

Avalara reported $169.1 Founded in 2004, Avalara has also been on an acquisition spree of late, swooping up companies including DAVO Technologies, Business Licenses, Transaction Tax Resources, INPOSIA Solutions, and Impendulo Limited. The company’s market capitalization is now more than $14 billion.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. March 2004: Autonomy acquires NativeMinds and Cardiff Software. billion at 2011 exchange rates—although later reports will put the price as high as £8.7 billion or $11.7

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Who’ll blink first: The world’s largest music company or TikTok?

Vox

At the end of January, when Universal Music Group (UMG) failed to negotiate a new licensing deal with TikTok , it removed its entire music catalog from the app. They want to pay under the market rate for licensing our catalog. How much was TikTok paying to license the Universal Music Group’s music and how much does UMG want now?

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Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket misses going to space during its first air launch

GeekWire

“We’ve confirmed a clean release from the aircraft,” Virgin Orbit reported in a tweet. Virgin Orbit’s technology builds on the air-launch legacy of SpaceShipOne, the rocket plane that won the $10 million Ansari X Prize back in 2004 with financial support from the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

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‘Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’ publisher removes Seattle’s Hardsuit Labs as developer

GeekWire

The news comes from Paradox Interactive’s year-end report for 2020 , which was released Tuesday morning. Paradox, the publisher for Bloodlines 2, has owned the licensing rights to the Vampire: The Masquerade tabletop game since 2015, as well as a 33% stake in Hardsuit Labs. ” Hardsuit Labs itself has yet to comment.