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    Rep Report for March 25, 2016

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    Cinematographer Steve Holleran
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    King and Country (K&C), a Santa Monica, Calif.-based design-centric production company, has added Danita Jo (DJ) Fox as director of business development, commercials. In her new role, Fox will work closely with K&C partner/executive producer Jerry Torgerson to establish and maintain relationships with the company’s ad agency clients. She will also collaborate with K&C’s independent sales reps in different territories across the U.S. and Canada. Fox was most recently director of brand development/producer at Butcher Post, where she managed new business, sales, bidding, PR and marketing for the editorial and VFX company. Prior to that, she’s held business development, sales and executive producer roles in the audio post and sound side of business for more than 20 years, including Zona Playa (part of Margarita Mix/LA Studios), POP Sound, Eleven Sound, Endless Noise, and Finger Music and Sound. Over the course of her career, she has collaborated with such clients as Nike, Xbox, Gatorade, Adidas, EA Games, Sony and Mitsubishi. Fox got her start in 1987 working for Richard Perry (then president of A&R at Warner Brothers Records) at Studio 55, where such music greats as Rod Stewart, Chaka Kahn, and Rickie Lee Jones recorded some of their most famous records. In 2015, Fox founded Foxey Reps, representing a diverse range of talent, including editors, directors, composers, colorists and VFX/animation artists….

    Cinematographer Steve Holleran, whose credits include The Land (director Steve Caple for Netflix) has signed with Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA) for representation….

    Meanwhile DDA has booked DP Noah Greenberg on the feature film Coin Heist being directed by Emily Hagins, and DP Manuel Billeter on the Marvel/Netflix TV series Iron Fist….

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    A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.

    The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.

    Here's what it all means:

    What is the Justice Department's goal?
    Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.

    "The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."

    Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."

    It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More

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