The struggle of the entertainment industry with the AI industry continued on Tuesday, with more than 400 entertainers -including Mark Ruffalo, Paul McCartney, Cynthia Erivo, Cate Blanchett and Chris Rock -signed an open letter in which the Trump -Administratie was to be enforced.
The letter comes after Google and OpenAi asked that such laws were relaxed. In February, the Trump administration called for public comments about an action plan for artificial information that the White House said would define “priority policy actions” with regard to the American position in the global AI industry.
“We are firmly convinced that the global AI leadership of America should not be at the expense of our essential creative industries,” the letter said. “The American art and entertainment industry supports more than 2.3 million American jobs every year with more than $ 229 billion in wages, while providing the basis for American democratic influence and soft power abroad.”
The letter signed by a consortium of the entertainment industry -including Star Wars: the last Jedi director Rian Johnson, actresses Aubrey Plaza and Carrie Coon, and Thor: Ragnarok -director Taika Waititi -was a response to Fair Proposals.
In a statement to DecryptA Google spokesperson emphasized that the existing Fair Use framework provides a solid legal basis for innovation.
“We support the existing framework of America and we are convinced that the current copyright legislation makes AI innovation possible,” said the spokesperson.
Decrypt Also reached out to OpenAI for comment, but did not receive a response immediately.
Critics claim that widening the doctrine of American fair use – which makes limited use of copyrighted material possible without first having to acquire permission from the copyright holder – to cover AI developers, the entertainment industry and other sectors threaten.
“Make no mistake: this problem goes much further than the entertainment industry, because the right to train AI on all copyrighted content influences all American knowledge industries,” the letter said. “When tech and AI companies demand unobstructed access to all data and information, they not only threaten films, books and music, but also the work of all writers, publishers, photographers, scientists and all other professionals who work with computers and generate intellectual property.”
OpenAI noted that SB-1047, the California Bill introduced in 2024 by StateSenator Scott Wiener, who proposes that a sandbox is being made to offer liability protection of “on the state based on the security of the frontier model”.
Decrypt contacted the Wiener officer for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
“This will help keep the American public and private sectors competitive by leaving AI companies of all species to pursue bleeding-edge AI technology, free from the regulatory uncertainty created by some state-based liability regimes,” the company wrote.
SB-1047 was adopted in August and was intended to regulate the development and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence, often as border models to reduce potential catastrophic risks in connection with abuse.
If OpenAi and Google have successfully supplemented the Fair use Doctrine to cover AI developers, this can help a long way to win the legal writers, artists and media against the industry since AI collapsed in the mainstream in 2022.
Published by James Rubin
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