Amazon Joins Motion Picture Association with Prime Video and MGM Studios
The addition marks the first new member since Netflix in 2019, enhancing collective efforts in content protection and policymaking.
- Amazon's Prime Video and MGM Studios will officially join the MPA on October 1, 2024.
- The MPA now includes Paramount, Sony, Universal, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix, and Amazon.
- Amazon's move follows its $8.5 billion purchase of MGM in 2022 and its ongoing investment in entertainment.
- The MPA focuses on copyright protection, anti-piracy efforts, and advancing the film and TV industry.
- Amazon has been involved with the MPA's anti-piracy coalition, ACE, since 2017, and MGM was an MPA member until 2005.