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Who Turns On the Lightstick You Paid For?
A fan pays 40,000 to 50,000 won for a lightstick; a Coldplay crowd gets an LED band on the way in. The picture in the stands looks the same, but a different party covers the hardware. Depending on the show you may also have to go through the chore of pairing your seat. Through a six-year lightstick patent fight and the Coldplay tour, let's look at who buys the device, who turns the LED on, and who pays for it.
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Daily 10/30: AI games gain a path from creation to commerce as Eros and Fikad build production infrastructure
Xsolla acquired GamePix to connect AI-created games with browser distribution and global payments. Korean startup Fikad launched an agent that plans and produces short videos from a line of text and source materials. Eros Innovation is combining rights-controlled cultural data, digital humans, and real-time production for film, immersive entertainment, and games.
The Fans Built It First
Fans made sped-up edits a trend, and the labels caught up by releasing them officially. Now the act of changing the music is itself becoming something fans pay for. What Hook, Suno and Spotify charge the fan, what they owe the rights holder and on what basis, and whose permission you need first to build the same thing in Korea.
A Sticker Counts as an Album Now
Starting with the October 2 tracking week, Billboard adds a sales format called the smart media album. It is the first new physical category since the CD, forty years ago. Two of the seven vendors Luminate approved are Korean companies. Here is how Circle Chart and Oricon have counted the same object, and what you have to lock down at the design stage if you want to build one.
Previz Comes After the Prompt
Three things landed in the first week of September. GPT-6 Astra built a house in Blender and moved it into Unreal, Higgsfield bolted a 3D workspace on top, and Images 2.5 got better at holding a reference image steady. String them together and the order of AI video production changes. Here is what is confirmed and what is still a vendor claim.
The AI That Never Leaves the Building
Unreleased masters, raw footage, next week's pitch deck. Plenty of companies stall on AI because those files cannot go up to somebody else's server. Here is what one machine in your own office can and cannot do today, and where it lands a year from now.
GenPresso: Generate and Edit Video Without Leaving the Screen
An AI video studio that puts model generation and timeline editing in the same project, so a cut never has to be exported to be finished. What it does, how to use it, and where it fits, in two minutes.
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