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LICENSING DEAL FOR KOREAN ARTIST South Korean artist Sung Hee Kim has licensed six of her artworks to Shanghai Fullmoon Network Technology Co, Ltd, an art company in Shanghai, China. Sung Hee Kim’s art posters are now being sold at Shanghai’s bookstores and landmarks including 1984 Bookstore, and Happiness Collection in Blackstone Apartments. The licensor, Sung Hee Kim founded a sole proprietorship in 2019 as a nationally registered artist. Her works vary from drawings and acrylic paints to digital prints and digital paintings. The six artworks licensed are all digital paintings created in 2020. It is her wish that the audience find their own light of happiness through her artworks. The licensee, Shanghai Fullmoon Network Technology Co, Ltd, signed the licensing contract with Sung Hee Kim as part of the Artoken Project - a global artworks digital copyright database of the Shanghai Fullmoon Network Technology Co, Ltd. This started in Shanghai in January 2021 and is in the process of expanding its online presence and broadening its distribution to other cities in China with more art products, starting with art posters. 1984 Bookstore located at the Former French Concession in Shanghai is the first bookstore that started to sell Sung Hee Kim’s art posters.The second distributor, Happiness Collection is an art themed bookstore in the Blackstone Apartments, which is the first luxury apartment block in Shanghai built in 1924 with bricks imported from the UK. Sung Hee Kim introduces her artworks in various ways to customers including an art rental service, art products, art fairs, and exhibitions. She has been registered at Opengallery since August 2020, which is an art rental service with the largest membership in South Korea. Her artworks are being continuously borrowed by the customers on a three-month basis. She is also transforming her artworks into diverse art products with her agent Young Woo Kim, a director of Characterline Inc, one of the leading marketing and management agents of Intellectual Property in South Korea. Her signature is a registered trademark which is also an essential part of her art products’ design. The art products were fist sold to the public at her exhibition, I chose to be Happy held in May 2019 at KT&G Sangsangnadang Gallery, in Seoul.
APC KIDS SECURE DEAL FOR ROGER APC Kids, the children’s entertainment division of co-production and distribution group APC Studios, has secured a far-reaching deal with WarnerMedia for its 3D CGI animated comedy series Roger (78 x 7’). The deal includes exclusive pay tv rights and non-exclusive non-linear rights in South East Asia, Taiwan and Australia for WarnerMedia Kids brands, which include Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Aimed at kids aged 6-9, Roger has a unique 3D stop motion rendering look, and is produced by Je Suis Bien Content for France Télévisions. APC Kids holds worldwide distribution and consumer products rights for the series. Previous deals for the hit series secured by APC Kids include TV5 Québec (Canada), TV5 Monde (worldwide excluding Europe), Ceská Televize (Czech Republic), Jetsen Huashi (China), TVB (Hong Kong), Bein (MENA) and ETB (Spain). The series follows the lively adventures of a little girl, the carefree, joyful and occasionally perky Fatou, and a clumsy alien called Roger, on a tropical island. Roger is expected to air on Boomerang in Australia, South East Asia and Taiwan in Q4 2021.
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BLIPPI Moonbug Entertainment Ltd. and Amazon Kids+ are collaborating again on more content for kids starring the global sensation, Blippi. The two companies are creating a new, long-form episodic series called Blippi’s Treehouse, which will premiere exclusively on the Amazon Kids+ streaming service at a future date. “In just under a year, we have delivered on our promise to families around the world: bringing Blippi to more platforms, with new storylines, and even more great content,” said Andy Yeatman, Managing Director of the Americas at Moonbug. “Blippi’s contagious curiosity inspires kids everywhere to get excited about learning new things and we are thrilled by Amazon’s dedication to educational kids programming.” “We can’t wait for Blippi fans to get to know Blippi’s Treehouse and experience the Blippi they love like never before,” said Veronica Pickett, Head of Amazon Kids+ original series. “No one brings entertainment and education together for kids quite like Amazon Kids+ and our friend Blippi. We know the millions of Amazon Kids+ subscribers will love these new Blippi adventures.” Blippi started as an online live action, educational children’s show for kids ages 2-5 years old. In the few years since the show was first created, Blippi has become one of the world’s most popular preschool entertainers, with over 3 billion minutes streamed on Amazon Prime Video, more than one billion views on YouTube just last month and over 30 million dedicated followers.
