MUMBAI: A New Orleans man has pled guilty to two counts of copyright infringement in U.S. District Court in Louisiana and was sentenced last week to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay...

MUMBAI: NBC Universal, which recently acquired a 26 per cent share in NDTV Networks, will now be acquiring UK independent production company Carnival Film & Television Ltd. Under the terms of the agreement, NBC...

Mumbai: 3D Digital experiences and technology platforms company Xpand has entered a five year exclusive deal with Eurasia Cinemas, 88 per cent shareholder of AFM Cinemas, Turkey’s only publicly held entertainment company and cinema...

Mumbai: Warner Music International (WMI) and European online music community, MusicMakesFriends have inked a content and revenue partnership. Effective immediately, Warner Music’s catalogue of audio content will be made available on MusicMakesFriends’ on-demand streaming...

Mumbai: Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning international superstar Gloria Estefan will be honored as the 2008 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. Estefan was chosen for her philanthropic, professional, and cultural accomplishments and she...

Mumbai: Brandchannel, the online resource about branding, revealed the winners of its fourth annual brandcameo Product Placement Awards. "Resisting economic slowdown and government opposition, the integration of advertising into different forms of entertainment continues...

Mumbai: Columbia Records/ Sony BMG will release Black Ice, the new studio album from AC/DC, on 20 October. Black Ice, the first full-length studio album of all-new material from AC/DC since the release of...

MUMBAI: Global Entertainment Acquisition Corporation acquired through license the library of music scores, commercial jingles, original songs and underscores from Impact Productions, a Miami based power commercial music house. The library contains hundreds of...

MUMBAI: Motion Picture Association’s (MPA) Asia-Pacific wide anti-piracy enforcement operation – Operation Takedown, which was launched in May 2008, concluded at the end of July 2008. The operation resulted in the arrest of 461...

MUMBAI: The New Zealand film industry’s "What are you really burning?" campaign was stepped up with the launch of the first of 6,000 posters being distributed to 2,700 schools throughout the country. The posters,...