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Motion Picture Association

Trade association representing major US film and television studios, advocating for their interests on policy, piracy enforcement, and copyright protection.

Known aliases

  • Motion Picture Assn.
  • MPA

Current stories

investConfirmed3 publishers

Netflix, Amazon and Google's YouTube launch streaming lobbying coalition as Netflix stock rises 4%

Netflix rose 4% to $80.78 as it co-founded TechNet's streaming lobby with Amazon and YouTube, about two points more than its sector fund on a day the broad market fell. The review at issue started as a complaint about streaming paywalls.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 10%
Operator
Operator 43%
Investor
Investor 47%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives72
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

Bipartisan bill offers a 20% federal credit on US film labor for shooting 75% of days at home

Sens. Tim Scott and Adam Schiff back a bill giving film and TV productions a 20% federal credit on US labor, rising to 30% with bonuses. Those bonuses reward rural, disaster-area and multi-state shoots, so part of the contest the bill sets up is between US states.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption5
Hype gap+30
Incentives75
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

Both remaining AI oversight plans differ on how much self-regulation to allow

A reported August phone call from Mark Zuckerberg is the latest time a binding AI review has come back voluntary. For teams planning compliance, the live choice is an industry-funded reviewer or a film-style ratings scheme, and both let the model ship.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+18
Incentives78
Confidence55
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Zuckerberg argued against a FINRA-style AI reviewer in a direct call with Trump

The plan is far enough along inside the White House to draw a chief executive's phone call, which makes third-party model review a planning assumption for compliance teams rather than a hypothetical. The design remains open.

Reality

Evidence36
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+18
Incentives82
Confidence44
investOne report1 publisher

Trump endorses a film credit that stacks on whichever state already wins

The term on the table is 20% of all labor costs, actors included, layered on top of state incentives the way Canada's is, which moves the margin against foreign shoots without changing which American state gets the work.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption18
Hype gap+15
Incentives78
Confidence45
securityOne report1 publisher

Seizing 80 IPTV servers turns a £980,812 piracy case toward the people who subscribed

Milan Ibrahim drew more than six years for a £980,812 subscription business run on 80 machines in Chorley. The police kept the machines, and say they may lead to the identification of the customers who paid.

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption28
Hype gap+18
Incentives68
Confidence54
buildOne report1 publisher

ByteDance's MPA deal buys peace at the output layer and leaves the training bill unpriced

The memorandum names face blocking, character filters, C2PA credentials, watermarking and monitoring. It names no training-data licence, and that asymmetry sets the shipping checklist.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption26
Hype gap+14
Incentives66
Confidence38