When the American Book Syndicate agreed to a contract with major studios in 2023, where it ended a 148 -day blow, the Federation gained a large handrail over artificial intelligence in Hollywood.
But as AI Innovation continues, the book says they need more studios. Now, they urge entertainment companies to take legal measures against artificial intelligence companies who claim to use the book’s work to train artificial intelligence models without their permission.
For the record:
3:10 pm Feb 12, 2025A previous version of this story said that WGA was the first Hollywood union to secure the protection of artificial intelligence in its contract with studios. The American Managers Syndicate obtained a deal before WGA.
John Rogers, a 58 -year -old screenwriter in Los Angeles, spent years in creating a “leverage” TV drama. After ChatGPT experience, Rogers said that the creative exhibition team is suspected of 77 episodes of the series – or work for five years – has been stopped and used to provide artificial intelligence.
Rogers said that in 2023, after Amnesty International, she asked Shatti to refer to a plot of an episode of “The Lane”, the story of Robin Hood in the modern era about a former insurance investigator working with a team of criminals stealing the wealthy people and compensates for those Those who were injured.
Rogers said that without Rogers requesting Chatbot the names of letters, Chatgpt suggested the idea of a conspiracy about a corrupt executive director using characters from the exhibition on his own.
Then he discovered that the “financial leverage” textual programs, along with other offers in which Rogers participated, including “Transformers” for 2007 and the TNT series “The Libraries”, was included in a database used to train artificial intelligence models. This data collection contains translations of OpenSubtitles.org, a website that provides translations of movies and TV programs in different languages, according to the November story from Atlantic Ocean.
“I am angry at the absolute arrogance of these companies,” said Rogers. “These companies have received hundreds of billions of dollars from the value that will not exist if not for our work.”
The union sent a letter in December to the leaders of the main studios, including Netflix, Amazon MGM Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount Global, NBCUNIVERSAL and Walt Disney Co. And Warner Bros. Discovery. Upon reaching them by the afternoon, these studios were rejected or did not respond to a request to comment on the union’s speech.
So far, no major studio has filed a lawsuit against any major artificial intelligence companies, despite the book’s complaints. There were no publicly announced content license deals with artificial intelligence companies, but some of the main studios conducted discussions with artificial intelligence companies about technology, causing fears among Hollywood talents that more of their functions will be automatically to save money.
“Studios have copyrights for our materials that are stolen, so they have reasons to take legal measures, and for this reason we wrote the message,” Merridheth Stehm, WGA WEST president, said in an interview. Frankly, they were neglected. They did not need to steal these materials protected by copyright by artificial intelligence companies, a surrender on their part still on the sidelines. “
David Smith, a professor of economics, said that the contract between the union and the alliance of mobile and television producers is scheduled to end in May 2026. At Bieberdin Grazesi’s business college.
“They highlight that it will be a major concern, a major issue that will determine how negotiations are going.”
Several writers, including Rogers, City, “The Killing”, the creator of Vienna Black, and the founder of “Gray’s Annomy”, were listed in a database created by the Atlantic Ocean to show what was used to train AI models, including Facebook Mitta and Anthropor.
“I am surprised, disgusting and horror from plagiarism mainly,” Soud said in a statement. “Artificial intelligence developers will continue to steal the words of the book and others until the court finds it illegal, until the studios take measures against this theft, and/or even the politicians ask the developers to negotiate and push artists to use our materials. It is a very basic concept: pushing the worker from their work. ”
The technology industry said that it should be able to train artificial intelligence models with content available on the Internet under the doctrine of “fair use”, allowing the cloning of limited materials without permission from the copyright holder.
“We respect intellectual property rights and believe that our use of information to train artificial intelligence models is compatible with the current law,” Mita said in a statement.
The anthropologist did not respond to a request for comment.
“We are building our artificial intelligence models using the data available to the public, in a protected way through fair use and relevant principles, and with the support of long -term and widely accepted legal precedents,” Obayy said in a statement. “We consider this principle fair to creators, necessary for innovators, and decisive to us competitiveness.”
The problem is what is “available to the public” and how this material becomes available to artificial intelligence models.
When his work writer sells to the studio, the studio has copyright for that article. Lisa Calv, a partner with Los Angeles, Donaldson Calif Perez, said she believed that studios will have a legal position to sue artificial intelligence companies.
“The difficult part is whether studios agree that business must be defended,” said Callif. “Studios have a firm interest in these artificial intelligence platforms that are developed and are useful to them.”
The current contract between WGA and amptp contains a language to ensure a human writer behind each text. The contract says that the book should be notified if research or intellectual property is carried out that uses artificial intelligence, and a writer cannot be conducted to use artificial intelligence in their work if they do not want it. But there is nothing in the agreement that addresses compensation when using the writer’s work to train artificial intelligence models.
“We did not get everything we wanted to train, and for this reason we urge studios to do something about this scraping for our materials.”
AmPTP refused to comment on this story.
Some studios work with artificial intelligence companies because they are looking for ways to reduce costs. For example, at LionSgate “Hunger Games” Lionsgate is partnership with New York Ai Company Runway to create a new Lionsgate model to help behind the scenes such as the storytelling.
Technology giants such as Amazon (which runs PRIME and MGM Studios) and the mother company YouTube Google invested Billions of dollars in Antarbur. YouTube revealed last year a feature of video creators to help them storm ideas.
Companies want to use artificial intelligence but also careful not to disturb Hollywood talent.
Openai conducted in exploratory conversations with studios on how to use a Sora from text to video, according to Openai partnerships that wanted to speak unknown because the discussions are continuing. Sora was used to make music videos, commercial ads and short films. This person said that the discussions did not include the license of the entire content libraries.
Openai met with Warner Bros Discovery and Disney, according to several other people familiar with the issue that they refused to call it because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The prosecution of the artificial intelligence giants will be expensive and take a long time. Countries around the world have different rules for copyright holders, which makes the legal scene a challenge.
However, artificial intelligence companies face many copyright cases from publishers such as the New York Times and giants music, including Universal Music Group.
Experts said that the results of the outstanding cases will help direct the following moves to other entertainment companies.
“It has huge implications for this industry,” said media lawyer Kyleen Che at the Feig/Finkel entertainment office. “I think everyone will wait and see what is happening there.”
On Tuesday, a judge in favor of Reuters, Thomson, ruled a lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, who accused her of multiplying work from the Westlaw research company, According to reports. The judge rejected the possible Russian defenses, including “fair use”.
John Lopez, a 44 -year -old writer and worked in the series “The Terminal List” and “Strange Angel”, said he is concerned that the next writer will face more difficult time, adding that technology also reduces the value of technology work and script writing.
“This blood, sweat, tears, work and love were, and it has turned into a fair value for them,” Rogers said.