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3 weeks ago | 
variety.com | Audrey Schomer
AI companies train their generative AI models on vast amounts of data, including copyrighted content used without the consent or compensation of rights holders. But little is publicly known about what that data specifically includes.
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1 month ago | 
wp.me | Audrey Schomer
On May 19, President Trump signed the Take It Down Act into law, which aims to prevent the spread of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII). The act addresses both real images and videos and “digital forgeries,” or deepfakes, which have been created or manipulated by generative AI and contain a real person’s likeness.
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1 month ago | 
variety.com | Audrey Schomer
On May 19, President Trump signed the Take It Down Act into law, which aims to prevent the spread of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) — both real images or videos and “digital forgeries,” aka deepfakes — that is created or manipulated by generative AI and contains a person’s likeness.
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1 month ago | 
wp.me | Audrey Schomer
Celebrity talent are weighing creating chatbot versions of themselves to grow, personalize and monetize fan engagement Chatbots bearing their name, likeness or voice can harm talent reputations if user interactions with the bot become dangerous Talent must guarantee strict protections in contracts, including restrictive guardrails, non-liability and clear disclaimers Chatbots are one way public figures have been considering utilizing their likeness in content enabled by generative AI, though...
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1 month ago | 
variety.com | Audrey Schomer
Chatbots are one way public figures have been considering utilizing their likeness in content enabled by generative AI, though few partnerships and activations are public. Yet recent news reports have revealed problematic user interactions with AI chatbots, highlighting risks for celebrities who license and lend their name, image, likeness or voice to enhance chatbot experiences. Conversational AI Is a Novel Opportunity for Hollywood, but Do Talent or Consumers Want It?
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1 month ago | 
wp.me | Audrey Schomer
Motion picture works that use generative AI complicate chain of title and the registration of creative works for copyright Producers using gen AI are proactively tracking and documenting their workflows and applying substantive edits to AI outputs AI-assisted films are likely to be protectable as whole works, but specific AI-generated elements that are incorporated may not be For Hollywood and other creative industries, most of the debate about generative AI and copyright has emphasized the...
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1 month ago | 
variety.com | Audrey Schomer
For Hollywood and other creative industries, most of the debate about generative AI and copyright has emphasized the unlicensed use of copyrighted content to train AI models. Yet some independent studio teams are examining how copyright will apply to AI outputs as they begin to create AI-assisted content, which uses generative AI in production workflows for film and TV projects.
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2 months ago | 
variety.com | Audrey Schomer
Earlier this month, Block CEO Jack Dorsey provoked a torrent of debate after posting “delete all IP law” on Twitter/X, to which Elon Musk responded, “I agree.” The controversy exposed a rift in perspectives toward IP ownership between AI proponents and creators. Dorsey rejected one user’s argument that IP law is what shields the works and inventions of creators and smaller innovators from ruthless reproduction by incumbents, writing, “times have changed. one person can build more faster.
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2 months ago | 
wp.me | Audrey Schomer
Jack Dorsey’s post on X/Twitter to “delete all IP law” exposed a rift in perspectives on IP ownership in the age of generative AI IP law would be hard to eliminate, but governments may weaken copyright protections to favor AI training on copyrighted works Training on scraped copyrighted works without a license already hurts economic incentives to create and share original works Earlier this month, Block CEO Jack Dorsey provoked a torrent of debate after posting “delete all IP law” on...
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2 months ago | 
wp.me | Audrey Schomer
The viral Studio Ghibli-style images trend could strengthen arguments that OpenAI’s 4o image model is infringing copyright, according to legal perspectives several IP litigation lawyers shared with VIP+. The release of OpenAI’s 4o image generation model in ChatGPT on March 25 unleashed a viral storm of AI-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli animation as users uploaded and asked the system to remake personal photographs and other images as restyled versions.
