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NEW YORK, Dec 9 — American content creators on TikTok asked followers to subscribe to their channels on rival platforms like Meta-owned Instagram and Alphabet’s YouTube after a federal appeals court ruled that the social media app could be banned if it is not sold to a US-based company by January 19. TikTok has become a major US digital force as it has grown to 170 million US users, especially younger people drawn to its short, often irreverent videos. It has sucked away advertisers from some of the largest US players and added commerce platform TikTok Shop, which has become a marketplace for small businesses. The US Congress, fearing TikTok’s Chinese owners are gathering information about American consumers, has passed a law requiring its owner, Chinese-backed ByteDance, to divest its TikTok in the US or face a ban. On Friday, a federal appeals court upheld the law. Threats by politicians and others to TikTok have been building for years, leading some users to brush off recent threats. That appeared to change on Friday, with the prospect of a ban in just six weeks. A Supreme Court appeal is still possible. “For the first time, I’m realising that a lot of what I worked for could disappear,” Chris Mowrey, a Democratic social media influencer with 470,000 TikTok followers, told Reuters. “I don’t think it’s been talked about enough how damaging it will be from an economic standpoint for small businesses and creators.” On the app, viewers and content creators voiced concerns and confusion, many saying they doubted the platform would survive, and that they were prepared for the worst. Chris Burkett, a content creator on TikTok with 1.3 million people following his men’s lifestyle videos, said he did not think the platform would last. “I don’t think there’s longevity on this app in the United States,” he said in a video post, asking his audience to follow him on other social media platforms, such as Instagram, YouTube, X and Threads. “We’ve put so many years and so much time into building our community here,” said food travel content creator SnipingForDom, who has 898,000 followers on the app. While he did not think the end was near for TikTok, he still told followers to reach out to him on his Instagram page. Others were also awaiting more information. Sarah Jannetti, a TikTok Shop consultant, said her clients are not worried about a potential TikTok ban and will not shift their businesses “until they see something that’s more concrete.” — ReutersThanks to Yoo Yeon Seok and Chae Soo Bin ’s one-of-a-kind, intoxicating chemistry, the MBC drama series When the Phone Rings ’ global fame has gone off the hook. Since its premiere on the South Korean network and global streaming giant Netflix on November 22, the series has consistently occupied top-ranking positions across TV Top 10 charts. Despite the cyclic delays of a new broadcast in the wake of political tensions in South Korea since President Yoon Suk Yeol briefly declared martial law earlier this month, the K-drama rose to the second rank on Netflix’s Global Top 10 (non-English) Shows chart for the first week of December (2nd to 8th). Garnering 4.3 million views this week, the melodrama series continued its three-week streak on the streamer’s rankings. Also read | Stray Kids, Le Sserafim, Ateez and more to perform at 2024 Music Bank Global Festival in Japan: When and where to watch When the Phone Rings finds domestic and international TV success On the other hand, it slipped a few ranks to take fourth place in South Korea’s TV-OTT combined topicality survey for the first week of December, according to Good Data Corporation’s December 10 update. Both leading stars of the show also lost their top-ranking spots as Yoo Yeon Seok came in 7th and Chae Soo Bin in 9th place on the drama performers chart. Nevertheless, they maintained their positions in the weekly Top 10 list. A post shared by 유연석 (@yoo_yeonseok) On the global side, their show did exceptionally well. According to the December 10 daily survey revision on FlixPatrol, a website aggregating content viewing rankings on global OTT platforms, When the Phone Rings claimed the fourth spot on the Top 10 TV Shows on Netflix that day. This list collectively ranked the English and non-English titles, unlike the streamer’s exclusive weekly Top 10 rankings. The Tale of Lady Ok on the rise The Lim Ji Yeon -led JTBC historical drama The Tale of Lady Ok set a viewership record by taking the top spot in the TV-OTT topicality ranking after just three episodes. Despite its fairly recent premiere on November 30, the show is already leading the national TV competition, with Lim herself ranking atop the drama performers list and her co-star Choo Young Woo trailing behind at #2. A post shared by 임지 (@limjjy2) Like When the Phone Rings, The Tale of Lady Ok has also reached out to global K-drama enthusiasts through Netflix. The streamer’s own Global Top 10 TV (non-English) rankings saw it occupy the 8th spot, amassing 1.6 million views in its debut week on the chart. Meanwhile, it rounded out FlixPatrol’s Top TV Shows (Netflix) on December 10. Also read | Lee Jong Suk to join No Gain No Love actress for fantasy romance after booking another drama with Moon Ga Young Other OTT K-drama success stories Netflix's original series The Trunk , starring Gong Yoo and Seo Hyun Jin, was the third K-drama spotted on this international ranking chart, as it slid in at #8. Back on the streaming giant’s (non-English) shows’ chart, it extended its two-week Global Top 10 streak at #3. Squid Game Season 2 has yet to air, with its release date slated for December 26. Nonetheless, the sensational K-drama franchise has already climbed to #3 in the TV-OTT buzzworthy rankings. A post shared by 서현진 (@cider.saida) Disney+ K-dramas: Light Shop on top Another significantly unmistakable OTT success story has been found in Disney+’s (or Hulu) Light Shop . The mystery horror series has been penned by the award-winning webtoon artist and screenwriter Kang Full, who was behind the hit superhero series Moving . Led by an ensemble cast featuring talents like Ju Ji Hoon, Park Bo Young , and Uhm Tae Goo, the December 4 premiere came in at #5 on Good Data Corporation’s TV-OTT buzzworthy rankings. FlixPatrol, on the other hand, granted it a much higher and record-setting position at #2 worldwide in the Disney+ TV show category on December 10. A post shared by 박보영 ParkBoYoung (@boyoung0212_official) Also read | Song Joong Ki confirms 1st set of variety show outings in 9 years after welcoming baby no. 2 with Katy Louise Saunders The same global chart also recognised the global fame of Ji Chang Wook ’s Gangnam B-Side and Kim Nam Gil’s The Fiery Priest 2 , which were ranked #5 and #6, respectively. K-dramas ranking on Netflix's Global Top 10 Non-English Shows chart (Dec 2-8) K-dramas ranked by FlixPatrol across OTT platforms (Dec 10) Top 10 Kdramas that generated the most buzz in Week 1 of December Top 10 drama actors who generated the most buzz in Week 1 of December
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It’s one of America’s most famous cold cases, and he thinks it can be solved. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger helms the new three-part Netflix documentary, “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey.” Premiering Monday, Nov. 25, the docuseries explores the famous tragic case of the 6-year-old beauty pageant star, who was murdered and sexually assaulted in her own home in 1996 . Twenty-eight years later, the culprit still hasn’t been caught. “I think a lot of the material that has been done in the past tries to have their cake and eat it, too,” Berlinger told The Post, referring to the slew of previous documentaries and TV specials about JonBenet Ramsey. “Or worse, it comes to the wrong conclusion.” The documentary covers how the local Boulder, Colo., police department mishandled the case, and how the subsequent media circus cast a cloud of suspicion on the Ramsey family that hangs over them nearly 30 years later. In 2013, newly unsealed court papers revealed that JonBenet’s parents — mother Patsy, who died of cancer in 2006, and father John, 80, who is interviewed on-screen in the docuseries — were indicted for being complicit in her murder. The district attorney at the time, Alex Hunter, refused to sign the indictment papers and declined to prosecute, citing a lack of evidence. “I am firmly convinced that the Ramsey family is innocent. And I am also firmly convinced that this case can be solved, if the Boulder Police Department finally does what it’s supposed to do,” said Berlinger. Berlinger, who also co-directed the “Paradise Lost” documentary, which helped release the West Memphis Three from prison, pointed out that DNA technology has advanced today. So, he believes it’s not a lost cause to finally solve the JonBenet Ramsey case. “There still seems to be this institutional lack of will to ultimately solve the case, because of what I believe was extreme mishandling at the outset,” he said. “I don’t think there’s been a good comprehensive documentary series that has really analyzed this case that will also hopefully put a little pressure on the authorities to do the right thing.” Berlinger noted that it wasn’t hard to get JonBenet’s father, John, to agree to appear in the documentary. “John Ramsey agreed to sit down with us, did not ask to be paid, and was not paid — we don’t pay our subjects — and asked for no editorial input. No questions were off limits. To me, that is an 80-year-old guy who...wants to get that case solved. It’s just unthinkable that the family had anything to do with this.” Berlinger said he believes that many “likely suspects” were ruled out at the time of the murder, because of the faulty DNA analysis at the time. “I think all suspects now have to be put back on the table, including the Ramseys. And they would be the first ones to say, ‘Sure, put this back on the table, but let’s do the DNA testing.’ This is not trial by television. I don’t want to do to people what was done to the Ramseys,” he added. “We want the proper authorities to reinvestigate this case, and the potential suspects after the DNA is properly retested.” As for who did it? Berlinger said, “Sadly, there are a lot of people in the world who are attracted to little girls , and can do horrible things to them. [An intruder] is a much more plausible scenario than the family having been involved, if you look at some of the basic facts in the case.”Kohima, Dec 8 (IANS): A 67-year-old tourist from the U.K., who attended the Hornbill Festival in Naga heritage village Kisama, died of a heart attack, police said on Sunday. Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Kohima, Sheta Lohe said that sexagenarian Nigel Richard from Bradford, U.K., breathed his last at a private hospital in Kohima on Saturday night. According to the police officer, Richard had complained of severe chest pain on Saturday evening while waiting for a bus at Kisama Heritage Village, the central venue of the 10-day-long Hornbill festival. He was immediately taken to a health camp set up at the festival venue and provided first aid before being shifted to a private hospital in Kohima, 12 km from Kisama. However, the tourist breathed his last later on Saturday night following which a post-mortem examination was conducted, the police officer said. The police officer said that the autopsy report revealed that Richard had died of a severe heart attack. A brief send-off service was conducted at North Police Station in Kohima on Sunday. An official of Nagaland’s Tourism and Art and Culture department, which has been organising the Hornbill Festival, said that all necessary arrangements were made by the department to send the body back to his home. Over 1.30 lakh people, including 2,100 foreigners and around 31,000 tourists from various states of India have attended till the 8th day of the festival on Sunday. In the ongoing silver jubilee edition of the Hornbill Festival, Japan, the U.S., the U.K. (Wales), Peru and Bulgaria were the country partners while Sikkim and Telangana were the partner states. Besides daily performances of a large number of cultural troupes from all the eight northeastern states, other highlights of the iconic Hornbill Festival include sales of local products, handloom and handicrafts, artworks, horticulture, traditional stone pulling ceremony, film festival, photo fest, heritage walk, kids’ carnival, International Hornbill Naga Wrestling, indigenous games and sports festival etc. Local cuisine, food festival, Naga King chilli and pineapple eating competitions, World War-II rally, adventure outdoor activities, mountain biking, Dzukou Valley Day Hikes, Bamboo Carnival, and Night Carnival were the other important attractions of the annual gala celebration, which began on December 1.
IIT Bombay seeks minimum salary of ₹6 lakh for placementsVictims of child sexual abuse in the US have sued Apple for $US1.2 billion in damages, over claims the tech giant failed to stop the distribution of illegal material. The lawsuit against the trillion-dollar company is being brought by a 27-year-old woman who was molested by a male family member as an infant, The New York Times reported. The relative, who was eventually arrested and sent to prison, took photographs of the abuse and shared them online with other offenders. The woman, who spoke to The Times on the condition of anonymity, said she and her mother were reminded of the abuse nearly every day due to multiple notifications from law enforcement that someone had been charged with possessing the images. “It was hard to believe there were so many out there,” she said. “They were not stopping.” In late 2021, the woman received a notification that the images were found on a Vermont man’s MacBook, with authorities later confirming they’d also been stored in Apple’s iCloud. She ultimately decided to sue the company, she told The Times , because it had broken its promise to protect victims like her. As many as 2689 victims could be eligible for compensation as part of the lawsuit, which was filed in Northern California over the weekend. Under US law, child sexual abuse victims are entitled to a minimum of $US150,000 ($234,683) in damages, meaning Apple’s payout could exceed $US1.2 billion ($1.87 billion) if it’s found liable by a jury. The filing refers to NeuralHash, a tool unveiled by Apple in 2021 that allowed it to scan for illegal images of sexual abuse via its iPhones, which would store a database of distinct digital signatures (known as hashes), associated with known child sexual abuse material. Those digital signatures would be compared against photos in a user’s iCloud storage service, and flag and report any matches of suspected sexual abuse material to authorities. NeuralHash never came to fruition – after cybersecurity experts said the technology could open the door to other government surveillance requests, Apple dropped the plan, saying it was impossible to scan iCloud photos without “imperilling the security and privacy of our users”. With NeuralHash, Apple has been selling defective products that harmed a class of customers, the lawsuit said, because it briefly introduced “a widely touted improved design aimed at protecting children” but “then failed to implement those designs or take any measures to detect and limit” child sexual abuse material. The complainants are not only seeking compensation, but for Apple to change its practices. In response to the lawsuit, Apple spokesperson Fred Sainz described the material as “abhorrent”, and said the company is “committed to fighting the ways predators put children at risk”. “We are urgently and actively innovating to combat these crimes without compromising the security and privacy of all our users,” he told The Times in a statement. The lawsuit comes amid increased scrutiny of Apple’s failure to effectively monitor its platforms or scan for images and videos of child sexual abuse. Following a 2019 investigation by The Times that revealed tech companies had failed to rein in abusive material, Apple executive Eric Friedman, who was responsible for fraud protection, messaged a senior colleague to say he thought the company was underreporting child sexual abuse material. “We are the greatest platform for distributing child porn,” he wrote in the 2020 text exchange, pointing out that was because Apple gave priority to privacy over user trust and safety. In August, the UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) accused the company of vastly undercounting how often the material appears on its products, and had been implicated in 337 recorded offences of child abuse images between April 2022 and March 2023 in England and Wales, The Guardian reported at the time. While Facebook and Google filed more than one million reports each of suspected child sexual abuse material to America’s National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), Apple submitted just 267. “There is a concerning discrepancy between the number of UK child abuse image crimes taking place on Apple’s services and the almost neglible number of global reports of abuse content they make to authorities,” NSPCC head of child safety online policy, Richard Collard, told The Guardian . “Apple is clearly behind many of their peers in tackling child sexual abuse when all tech firms should be investing in safety.”AP News Summary at 5:39 p.m. EST
Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn has been accused of cultural appropriation for claiming ownership of the "kangaroo dance" after the Olympian's legal team shutdown a musical about the breaker. Stephanie Broadbridge announced on Saturday her trial show for Raygun: The Musical had been cancelled just hours before it was due to begin after the 37-year-old's lawyers contacted the venue to threaten legal action . In a video shared to Instagram, Broadbridge said Raygun's lawyers trademarked her poster and advised the comedian she was not allowed to do the kangaroo dance because the viral Olympian "owns" it. “That one did puzzle me, I mean, that’s an Olympic level dance. How would I possibly be able to do that without any formal breakdancing training?” Broadbridge said, with a degree of humour. Broadbridge received an influx of support in response to her video, with many taking aim at Raygun's apparent attempt to claim ownership of the kangaroo dance. “Is (Raygun) going to sue every Indigenous person in Australia that does that dance?” one social media user asked. "Wouldn't it be funny if our Aboriginal brothers and sisters were to commence legal proceedings for stealing the roo dance and bringing culture into disrepute," another said. A third accused the Olympian of cultural appropriation over the use of the dance move. “She is claiming intellectual property on a 'kangaroo dance' which is very similar to that of many indigenous people’s, which goes back thousands and thousands of years,” they said. “It’s layers and layers of cultural appropriation.” While another social media user, a self-described Wiradjuri woman who was "sick of cultural theft", pounced on the moment to mock Raygun for thinking she owned the "roo hop" while believing she had a brand "that can be damaged". "She's the gift that keeps on giving!" she wrote. According to the Australian Curriculum website on the storytelling practices of Indigenous people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders use dances which depict "movements and costumes to represent land animals". "The kangaroo is depicted in the dance of many cultural groups across Australia," the online resource says. Other social media users criticised Raygun for trying to "profit" from her ridiculed Olympics performance. "Raygun mocked the Olympics and her competitors with her performance and is now trying to profit from it," one wrote. "Raygun and her team thought the musical would be damaging to her brand. They ever heard of the Streisand effect?" another said. Raygun’s manager Stephanie Scicchitano said the legal letter was designed to protect Raygun’s image. "While we have immense respect for the credible work and effort that has gone into the development of the show, we must take necessary steps to safeguard Rachael's creative rights and the integrity of her work," the statement said. "This action is not intended to diminish the contributions of others, but rather to ensure her brand is properly represented and protected in all future endeavours." The management team also revealed they had lodged an application to register "Raygun" as a trademark, which they believe will accepted. “In addition to the application, Rachael holds significant common law rights and goodwill in her stage name 'Raygun', further strengthening her position,” Raygun’s management and legal said. “It has come to our attention that the use of the ‘Raygun’ name by a comedian without approval has caused confusion among the public, potentially leading them to believe that ‘Raygun The Musical’ had Rachael’s endorsement or approval. “This misuse of intellectual property is not only misleading but also jeopardises Rachael’s other commercial ventures, which rely on the integrity of her brand.” Under the Copyright Act 1968 (s. 41A), the use of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work does not constitute an infringement of copyright if the use is fair and is for the purpose of parody or satire. Speaking to 9News over the weekend, Broadbridge said the musical would have been “good for her brand”, adding her initial feeling was “shock” when asked on her reaction to receiving the legal letter. "I didn't expect to be on anyone's radar at this stage in the process of being this very small musical project,” she said. In the caption for her Instagram video, Broadbridge said she would be back with a “whole new story arc” to add to the musical. SkyNews.com.au has contacted Broadbridge for further comment.