Acting union calls out Hollywood studios for ‘double standard’ on AI use — Actors would get sued for violating their IP, why is the opposite not true?
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Acting union calls out Hollywood studios for ‘double standard’ on AI use — Actors would get sued for violating their IP, why is the opposite not true?
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IPP for thee but not for me, it seems:^1
>SAG-AFTRA’s executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland called out the “double standard” in the relationship between actors and corporations when it comes to copyright infringement.
>That is to say, why is OK for businesses to use AI — trained from creative people’s work if not their direct likeness — to generate material as they wish, but if a person were to use a business’s intellectual property, it sudden becomes a problem.
>“After all, if an individual decided to infringe on one of these companies’ copyright protected content and distribute it without paying for the licensing rights, that individual would face a great deal of financial and legal ramifications,” Crabtree-Ireland said.
>“So why is the reverse not true? Shouldn’t the individuals whose intellectual property was used to train the AI algorithm be at least equally protected?” he asked.
^1 https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/05/sagaftra_ftx_ai_ip/