- China is no longer just counterfeiting products, it’s setting up fake retail outlets (The Wall Street Journal)
- Speaking of replicas, the UK prop designer for the original Star Wars sees victory over George Lucas in copyright case (BBC)
- Marvel and Disney, on the other hand, will retain copyright over the Marvel Universe for the foreseeable future (Law.com)
- Hackers-In-Training gather at the first annual DefCon Kids (CNET)
- A new study weighs whether new TV ads aimed at kids promote healthy eating (Los Angeles Times)
- Nielsen to start getting retail sales data from Walmart – for you non-number crunchers out there, that’s like being welcomed into Fort Knox (MediaPost)
- Paramount Pictures International is the first studio to cross the US$2 billion mark in 2011
- Don’t shoot the messenger, argues one columnist. Why TV is not to blame for kids’ lack of education (Telegraph)
- What’s old is new again at Nintendo (Washington Post)
- BBC launches its new iPlayer subscription service via an iPad app (Guardian)
- Sony goes big – and blue – in honor of The Smurfs blockbuster (The Wall Street Journal)
- Williams-Sonoma, owner of Pottery Barn Kids, makes its way into the UK market (The Independent)
- Amazon continues on Netflix’s trail by inking a new content agreement with Universal (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Finalists announced for the Teletoon at Night Pilot Project contests (Playback Online)
- Losses at Nintendo prompt the gaming giant to slash 3DS prices (The New York Times)
- Despite growth within its film unit, Sony also sees falling sales (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Parenting with privacy? A new service invisibly monitors kids’ Facebook accounts (All Things D)
- Study concludes there are no cancer risks for kids using cellphones (CTV)
- Why Facebook may not be able to breach China’s social-media walls (Ad Age)
- With a little help from foreign friends…International buyers are boosting US e-commerce sales (eMarketer)
- Watchdog group says Disney and Fox violated industry guidelines on advertising during kids’ TV shows (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Teen Choice Awards gets a new host, vampire category (Entertainment Weekly)
- Comic-Con’s winners and losers (Hint: Vampires are still alive and kicking) (Ad Age)
- Speaking of comics – how the iPad is changing the face of the industry (Wired)
- The social media world accepts Nickelodeon’s ’90s TV block with open arms (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The US back-to-school industry is expected to total $23 billion this year (Fox Business)
- Making magic out of mayhem – how the Winnie the Pooh movie songwriters found their inspiration (The Huffington Post)
- An increasingly competitive tablet market leads Blackberry maker RIM to cut 2,000 jobs (The Toronto Star)
- Will DreamWorks lose its ‘mojo’ by teaming with Netflix? One analyst believes so (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Mattel co-founder and Barbie creator Elliot Handler dies (The New York Times)
- TV watchdog groups criticize the FCC for poorly policing kids’ exposure to commercial programming (Politico)
- Aardman’s animation makes waves at this year’s Comic-Con (Guardian UK)
- Why Angry Birds merchandise is poised to be the hottest back-to-school trend (CNN)
- Rethinking department stores in the era of Walmart, Target and new technologies (Knowledge@Wharton)
- How Microsoft’s gesture-powered Kinect is changing the face of robotics (Wired)
- Bye-bye, Borders. The second-largest US bookstore prepares to close its doors (The Wall Street Journal)
- Macy’s goes big for back-to-school (Retailing Today)
- Stores better hold tight, though, because it looks like back-to-school shoppers aren’t in any rush to spend their cash (The Wall Street Journal)
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