"The Writers Guild of America is forcefully calling on Hollywood’s major studios to take a stand on the purported use of their members’ works as AI training data.
Leaders of the WGA West and East demanded that companies take “immediate legal action” against any firms that have used writers’ work to train AI tools in a letter sent to the chief executives of Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Paramount Global, NBCUniversal, Sony, Netflix and Amazon MGM Studios on Wednesday.
“It’s time for the studios to come off the sidelines,” the letter stated. “After this industry has spent decades fighting piracy, it cannot stand idly by while tech companies steal full libraries of content for their own financial gain.”"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/writers-guild-tells-studios-take-legal-action-ai-1236085492/
#AI #GenerativeAI #WritersGuild #Hollywood #Copyright #IP
Leaders of the WGA West and East demanded that companies take “immediate legal action” against any firms that have used writers’ work to train AI tools in a letter sent to the chief executives of Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Paramount Global, NBCUniversal, Sony, Netflix and Amazon MGM Studios on Wednesday.
“It’s time for the studios to come off the sidelines,” the letter stated. “After this industry has spent decades fighting piracy, it cannot stand idly by while tech companies steal full libraries of content for their own financial gain.”"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/writers-guild-tells-studios-take-legal-action-ai-1236085492/
#AI #GenerativeAI #WritersGuild #Hollywood #Copyright #IP
Writers Guild Tells Studios to Take Legal Action Against AI Companies
The union is arguing that tech companies "looted the studios’ intellectual property" while Hollywood's major companies stood by.Katie Kilkenny (The Hollywood Reporter)
