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Speaker 2: I'm justin and I'm harsh deep and it's Monday, the

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Speaker 2: twenty seventh of May.

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Speaker 1: Canvas has just hosted their annual product showcase in LA

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Flux fam We're nearing the end of May,

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Speaker 2: your financial hygiene before the end of May.

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Speaker 1: Three hygienic stories today, Let's get into it for our

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Speaker 1: first news, Corp has signed a deal with open Ai

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Speaker 1: that will help train GPT's engine off the back of

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Speaker 1: its major publications.

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Speaker 2: I swear a few months ago, News Corp execs were

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Speaker 2: throwing serious shade at open Ai. Tell me what's happening here?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So News Corp is the media and publishing giant

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Speaker 1: that is ah hued in the US and jazz.

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Speaker 2: NewsCorp owns a whole bunch of publications around the world

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Speaker 1: And in Australia, NewsCorp owns The Herald Sun, The Australian

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Speaker 1: as well as a big chunk of Foxtel.

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Speaker 2: A few months ago, News Corp CEO called Ai platforms

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Speaker 2: thieves and counterfeiters for training their models on media content.

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Speaker 1: Without the consent of these media publications.

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Speaker 2: But now just a few months later, News Corp is

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Speaker 2: calling open Ai a principled partner.

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Speaker 1: Because plot twist, news Corps announced a new deal with

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Speaker 1: open Ai.

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Speaker 2: Okay, cut to the chase. How much are they paying.

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Speaker 1: News Corps giving open Ai access to all of its

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Speaker 1: major news publications for a reported fifty million US dollars

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Speaker 1: a year over five years.

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Speaker 2: That feels kind of small considering open Ai is literally

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Speaker 2: building its business off this type of content.

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Speaker 1: That's true, but in news Corps view it's better than

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Speaker 1: getting nothing, which is what they're currently getting with Meta.

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Speaker 2: So tell me, Jazz, what is the key learning here?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes doing a bad deal is better than doing no

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Speaker 2: See right now, many publishers are in a pretty poor

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Speaker 2: negotiating position with tech leaders like Google, Meta and of

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Speaker 1: In fact, she NewsCorp CEO said, they've seen a huge

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Speaker 1: shift of power from creators like themselves to distributors like

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Speaker 2: And we've already seen this shift through the media.

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Speaker 1: Bargaining code yep, that's where large media organizations like NewsCorp

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Speaker 1: and nine are fining with Meta over compensation for using

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Speaker 2: But Jazz, now we're starting to see it in the

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Speaker 2: AI space to where even greater extent.

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Speaker 1: AI platforms are literally training their whole, entire AI models

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Speaker 2: So far, we've seen the Associated Press and Axel Springer

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Speaker 2: read it, and now they've landed a big fish in Newscorps.

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Speaker 1: But for just fifty million US dollars per year. This

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Speaker 1: deal could be a sign of NewsCorp signing its own

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Speaker 2: Our second story. The owner of Ticketmaster has been sued

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Speaker 2: the live events industry and suffocating competition.

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Speaker 1: What are the odds? This was started by the Taylor

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Speaker 1: Swift fans who missed outed a concert because of Ticketmaster's debacle,

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Speaker 2: Me more so bit of background Jazz. Ticketmaster is a

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Speaker 2: ticket sales company that was founded back in nineteen seventy six.

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Speaker 1: It manages the tickets for some of the biggest shows

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Speaker 2: Now, back in twenty ten, Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation,

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Speaker 1: After this merger, the new company became the dominant entertainment

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Speaker 2: In late twenty twenty two, Taylor Swift tickets were sold

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Speaker 2: experience was horrific. This got the US legislators taking out

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Speaker 1: Now the US Department of Justice has foilt a lawsuit

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Speaker 1: against Live Nation Entertainment for alleged monopolists practices.

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Speaker 2: They claim that Live Nation suffocates its competition by either acquiring.

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Speaker 1: Them or throwing out threats and retaliation to artists who

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Speaker 2: And so now the Justice Department want to break up

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Speaker 1: So what is the key learning here?

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Speaker 2: Monopolistic practices occur when a company dominates a market so

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Speaker 2: much that competitors just don't stand a chance.

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Speaker 1: And actually, Ticketmaster is absolutely dominating the ticketing industry.

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Speaker 2: Get this. In twenty twenty three alone, Ticketmaster distributed over

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Speaker 2: six hundred and twenty million tickets worldwide.

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Speaker 1: And actually, while dominating the board in the game of

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Speaker 1: monopoly might win you bragging rights. In the real world,

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Speaker 1: this dominance can stifle competition and hurt consumers.

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Speaker 2: These monopolies can lead to high prices and limit choices

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Speaker 2: for consumers. So the Justice Department is hoping to break

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Speaker 2: up Ticketmaster and Live Nation to reintroduce competition.

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Speaker 1: Which would hopefully lead to fair prices and.

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Speaker 2: Less swifty is crying over missed out.

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Speaker 1: Tickets for our third and final story. Dion Lee, the

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Speaker 1: Australian luxury fashion brand, has gone into voluntary administration and

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Speaker 1: it now joins a growing list of oussie fashion brands

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Speaker 2: Another one bites the dust. This isn't looking good. Tell

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Speaker 1: Just kay so. Down Lee is the Australian fashion brand

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Speaker 1: is one of the few to have actually found international success.

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Speaker 2: Its designs have been worn by the likes of Taylor Swift,

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Speaker 2: Dua Lipa and Megan Markle.

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Speaker 1: And let me tell you, aha, I did a little

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Speaker 1: bit of digging and those designs cost a pretty penny. Yep.

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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift's d on Lee top that she wore to

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Speaker 2: this year's Super Bowl will set you back a casual

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Speaker 1: And now the Australian arm of down Lee has entered

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Speaker 1: voluntary administration.

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Speaker 2: And this has come after retail chain Q said that

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Speaker 2: withdrawn their investment from d on.

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Speaker 1: Lee, which left the brand unable to stand on its own.

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Speaker 2: But the good news for now is that on Lee

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Speaker 2: will continue operating while under voluntary administration. So what is

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Speaker 1: Voluntary administration is when a company's in financial trouble so

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Speaker 1: it brings in an exxternal administrator to take control of

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Speaker 2: Entering administration is bad news and a lot of the

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Speaker 2: time it leads to companies having to shut down.

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Speaker 1: Think Alice McCall, Sneaker Boy, Arnsdorf.

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Speaker 2: These are all Australian fashion brands that have collapsed in

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Speaker 2: the last year after entering voluntary administration. But just going

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Speaker 2: into voluntary administration isn't always so doom and gloom.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes, in the process of pulling a company out of

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Speaker 1: a mountain of debt, administrators can actually give it a

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Speaker 2: Remember when swimwear brand ce Foley went into administration back

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. Its administrators initially thought the company was

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Speaker 1: After selling off some stores restructure its finances, Cefoley was

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Speaker 2: So while it looks like Deon Lee's in its flop

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Speaker 2: era right now, financially speaking, there's always a chance that

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Speaker 2: it could make a comeback in the future.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening and receive you on Wednesday.