Shopline and its parent company JOYY have settled a copyright lawsuit filed by Shopify, Reuters reports. The suit accused Shopling of copying its software to build a competing product. "Shopline copied our Dawn theme, rebranded it, and sold it against us," said Shopify general counsel Jean Niehaus in a statement. "We took them to court and they've been ordered to stop and to pay us. Open source is built on trust and we'll defend that every time someone treats it as a free pass to steal."

Pinterest is offering a feature that will help advertisers better understand how their ad campaigns are doing in various countries, ALMCorp. reports. Residing on Pinterest’s ad platform, the “markets view” feature is designed to give businesses the ability to see how their PIN campaigns perform across several regions simultaneously. It is designed for businesses that sell their products overseas or plan to start doing so. 

Delta Air Lines has expanded its Delta Sync platform by integrating The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times into its connectivity portal, Travel And Tour World reports. Premium passengers with real-time news and business intelligence. Delta is also integrating video content from the publications into its seatback entertainment systems in nearly 900 aircraft, including business interviews. 

Paramount Skydance will withdraw from United International Pictures (UIP), a film distribution joint venture with Universal Pictures, in order to gain European Union approval for its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, The Hollywood Reporter writes. Antitrust regulators urged Paramount to drop its UIP stake to calm antitrust concerns expressed by European cinema operators and to secure approval of the $111 billion deal.    

The media business is being increasingly shaped by a small group of billionaires like Jeff Bezos, David Ellison, Michael Bloomberg and Marc Benioff, whose interests go far beyond journalism, according to an analysis by Observer. Their decisions have an impact on newsroom direction and public trust as they control the most visible outlets in the country. The article is accompanied by a roster of tech founders and investors with media interests. 

Charles H. Townsend, who was chief executive of Condé Nast during a period in which the company and other media firms were rocked by falling ad revenues and the shift from print to digital, has died at age 82, The New York Times reports. Townsend, who started his 12-year tenure in 2004, oversaw the closures of Gourmet, Details and Lucky.

The News/Media Alliance has submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, calling for a narrow definition of consumer under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). It says a consumer is someone who subscribes to audiovisual materials and that definition has been accepted by the Sixth Circuit and the D.C. Circuit courts. A broader view would apply the VPPA to consumers who do not subscribe. The brief supports Paramount in the case of Salazar vs. Paramount Global. 

Almost six out of ten U.S. adults support banning access to social media sites for young people under the age of 16, Pew Research Center reports. But one in five adults oppose such a ban and one in four are unsure. Those in the 30-49 age group are the most likely to favor a ban, and parents with an 18-year-old are more supportive of a ban than those without a child that age. Pew surveyed 9,750 U.S. adults from May 26 to June 1 of this year.