AI Conversation Finds A Home In Hollywood’s Back Yard At Infinity Festival
November 18, 2024 – Media MentionEntertainment Partner, Matt Dysart, was featured in Deadline, discussing the importance of protecting creators' rights as technology continues to reshape the creative industry.
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“The best way to be prepared for the unknown is to be protective of the downstream future rights scenario,” Dysart said. Conversations with tech platforms, studios, guilds and creators have been “far-reaching and ambitious,” he added. Declining to get too specific about terms, he said the objective from his end to prevent industry figures from “getting taken advantage of and pushed aside,” as have many traditional publishers. (Dow Jones and the New York Times Co. have recently filed lawsuits against AI firms, bringing that precise complaint.)
The entertainment industry, Dysart said, “is very cognizant of that history and is very proactively leaning into shaping a new legal regime that will prevent a much larger ecosystem of creators and talent and data creators of all stripes from having their livelihoods completely stripped away from them by this new technology.”
