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    Rep Report for June 16, 2017

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    Ashley Ford of indie rep firm Friends of Ford
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    O Positive has garnered U.K. representation via production house Rogue in London. Rogue will rep all the O Positive directors, including Jim Jenkins and David Shane (renowned for his recent Currys Christmas campaign with Jeff Goldblum). London-based O Positive EP/producer Nell Jordan also joins the team at Rogue. 

    Daryl Devlin will head up West Coast sales for Seed, the shop headed by founder/EP Roy Skillicorn. Seed is headquartered in Chicago with an office in L.A. Devlin created and ran what is now Getty Image’s National Business Development Initiative, working with salespeople to understand client needs while helping to digitize and populate its library with top drawer content. As the U.S. salesperson for BBC Technology she worked with its “think tank” at Kingswood Warren Ventures and helped to commercialize assets for sale to the U.S. market. Her real passion surfaced while she represented, and produced, for several film directors both through her own company, Media Logic, and with talent agency Bernstein and Andriulli. Seed’s directorial talent includes Tim Abshire, David Rosen, Jason Lindsey, Anthony Garth, Rick Wayne, Reuben Wu, Kristina Perreault, Corey Rich and Ashley Avis….
     
    Flavor, the creative production division of international creative company Cutters Studios, has secured Friends of Ford for representation on the West Coast. Friends Of Ford is owned and operated by Ashley Ford, who adds Flavor to her roster which also includes Digital Domain, London Alley, Nylon Studios, BestFriend and Alpen Pictures. Flavor’s studios and talents across its Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit studios continue to be repped on the East Coast by hello tomorrow….

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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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