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Participant Media and FilmBuff have licensed all North American rights to Brian Knappenberger’s acclaimed documentary “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz.” A day-and-date theatrical and VOD release is tentatively scheduled for June 2014, followed by a broadcast television premiere on Participant’s television network, Pivot, in Q4 of 2014.

Olympic athletes and fans took social media engagement to new heights during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, accounting for some 2 billion impressions across all Olympic platforms.

Online music services and the UK’s thriving creative sector will be able to trade more easily across Europe.

British scientists, exploring a beach on the country's east coast, discovered what they believe are the oldest human footprints outside of Africa. They are estimated to be close to one million years old and are believed to be the oldest evidence of humans in northern Europe.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon participates in Olympic torch relay ahead of Sochi Games.

Four Australian films have been selected to screen at the 2014 South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas. Writer/directors Michael and Peter Spierig’s Predestination, directors Angus Sampson and Tony Mahony’s The Mule, and writer/director Hugh Sullivan’s The Infinite Man will have their world premiere screenings. Kitty Green’s feature documentary Ukraine Is Not a Brothel will also screen at the festival.

Monster.com, the worldwide leader in successfully connecting people to job opportunities and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW), and Pivot, Participant Media’s TV network targeting Millennials, announced the premiere of a new original documentary, Generation Job: The Pursuit to Find Better.

Screen Australia’s Chief Executive, Graeme Mason, said that both local and international audiences were responding positively to strong, distinctive Australian content across both film and television, and that 2014 is set to be a great year for Australian stories.

Pivot, the cable network from Participant Media targeting Generation Y, and Univision News, the award-winning news division of Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America, have acquired the U.S. TV rights to ‘Cesar’s Last Fast’ from Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee in advance of its world debut at the Sundance Film Festival. The deal marks the first of ten documentaries to be co-produced or acquired by Pivot and Univision News (and Latin World Entertainment) as part of a previously announced alliance. The documentary will premiere simultaneously in English and Spanish on the two networks – Pivot and the Univision Network– respectively. The announcement was made by Evan Shapiro, President, Pivot and Isaac Lee, President of Univision News and CEO of Fusion.