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The BBC reports license fee payers fell 539K YoY to 23.3M in 2025-26, the biggest fall since 2020-21; license fee income rose £36M to £3.9B after the fee uplift (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/bbc-licence-fee-payers-plummet-c…

BBC License Fee Payers Plummet By Half A Million
The number of BBC licence fee payers fell by 539,000 last year as charter renewal negotiations enter a new stage, according to the annual report.

Vikings' J.J. McCarthy after losing QB battle: 'This is place I want to be' https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-j-j-mccarthy-after-losing-qb-battle-this-is-place-i-want-to-be

President Trump expresses support for Flock "because of law enforcement", while acknowledging some people consider the surveillance technology "an infringement" (Aoife Walsh/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technol…

Trump says he likes Flock license-plate cameras amid growing backlash
The president, while acknowledging some people consider the surveillance technology “an infringement,” said he supports it “because of law enforcement.”

lesmis: Les Misérables coappearances
The network of scene coappearances of characters in Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables". Edge weights denote the number of such occurrences.
This network has 77 nodes and 254 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/lesmis

Video: Warum ihr bei Mini-PCs aus China vorsichtig sein solltet
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Video: Warum ihr bei Mini-PCs aus China vorsichtig sein solltet
Was steckt im 220-Euro-Schnäppchen? Ausgemusterte Apple-CPU, ungültige Windows-Lizenz und Trojaner ab Werk. Wir zeigen euch die besseren Alternativen.

Spotify signs a licensing deal with independent music publisher Kobalt covering fan-made AI covers and remixes, granting songwriters a share of revenue (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/kobalt-signs-licensing-deal-spotify-ai-fan…

Kobalt Signs Licensing Deal With Spotify for AI Fan Remixing Tool
Kobalt has signed a licensing deal with Spotify for the streaming platform's AI fan remixing tool.

The UK's culture secretary Lisa Nandy says she backs an expansion of the BBC license fee to include subscribers to streamers, though many ideas remain in play (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/lisa-nandy-bbc-licence-fee-…

UK Culture Secretary Backs BBC License Fee Expanding To Cover Streaming Service Subscribers
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said the BBC licence fee could be expanded to subscribers to Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+.

Sources: Google is quietly scaling an "AI contribution pilot" to pay publishers when their content "significantly" contributes to its AI-generated responses (Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/google-rolls-out-pay-value-ai-licensin…

Google rolls out pay-per-value AI licensing program to publishers
Google has been quietly scaling a pay-per-value AI licensing scheme for publishers. Though some critics are skeptical of its

BBC DG Matt Brittin says the BBC and UK public service broadcasting face "real jeopardy" as license fee erosion drives BBC's third consecutive annual deficit (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bbc-real-je…

BBC Warns of 'Real Jeopardy' as License Fee Base Erodes
BBC's annual report touts BAFTA wins and record ratings even as editorial controversies and a third annual deficit deepen its funding crisis.

Suno adds music rights company BMG as its latest licensing partner as it prepares new models powered by licensed work, following a similar deal with WMG (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/suno-ai-licensing-deal-bmg-1236832703/

Suno Strikes AI Licensing Deal With BMG as It Preps Label-Backed Models
The deal will see Suno pay for BMG's repertoire of recordings by its artists and cover the use of any BMG songs to train Suno's past models.