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Soul Mate on Netflix uses Berlin because Japan and Korea cannot share a third city

Soul Mate on Netflix uses Berlin because Japan and Korea cannot share a third city

Two men stand on a Berlin sidewalk at three in the morning. One of them is bleeding from the mouth. Neither of them speaks the language of the city, and neither of them quite speaks the language of the other. The Japanese man has just been pulled out of a street fight by the Korean man, and there is no version of the scene that would play this way in either of their home countries. That is the premise Shunki Hashizume has been building toward across two earlier Netflix Japan projects, and Soul Mate is the version where he stops hinting at the argument and writes it on the wall.

Molly Se-kyung

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Nemesis on Netflix is Courtney Kemp’s LA proof the cop and the thief share a biography

Courtney A. Kemp’s first Netflix series uses an eight-episode LA cat-and-mouse to argue what she has been arguing since Power: that the cop and the criminal in Black America are siblings of geography, drawn into a duel because the city had already decided whose side of the table each one would occupy. The construction is patient, the screen-time grammar between the two leads is one-to-one, and the arrest at the end of the season cannot decide who was less complicit in the conditions that produced them both.

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Udio admits in court it scraped audio to train its AI music generator

In an answer filed in the Southern District of New York, the AI music startup Udio formally conceded the basic fact at the heart of one of the music industry’s biggest lawsuits: its models were trained on audio it scraped, not audio it licensed. The filing denies that this constitutes copyright infringement and asks the […]

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