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    Gareth Smith joins The Elements Music as creative producer in San Francisco

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    SAN FRANCISCO --

    The Elements Music has brought Gareth Smith on board as creative producer based in San Francisco. The hire represents an expansion of the company’s operations into San Francisco, complementing its Los Angeles and London locations. The Elements Music specializes in original music, catalog licensing, and sound design.

    A Bay Area native, Smith brings over 10 years of experience in music for advertising, starting his career at Scout, and moving on to an EP role at Beatnik Music. As a producer and composer, he’s produced projects for brands such as Google, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Apple, Nike, and Energizer. Smith also has substantial music supervision experience, placing music on many TV shows including Orange Is The New Black, Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, Shameless, Ray Donovan and Younger.

    “Gareth is a rarity, in that he joins us equipped to make an immediate impact across the production, sync, and biz dev realms,” said Dan Bewick, partner and creative director of The Elements Music. “He also brings an incredibly positive energy and a keen understanding of our business that makes him a perfect fit for the team.”

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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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