🎧 AI and Hollywood's 'Sophie's Choice'
Inside the scramble as showbiz lawyers, agents and legislators agonize over client rights: 'Is it too late?'
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Though the strikes ended, the fight around AI is far from over. Following the debut of her Dealmakers newsletter, new contributor Ashley Cullins joins to reveal her conversations with powerhouse entertainment lawyers and CAA, their behind the scenes maneuvering to protect Hollywood talent and the agonizing Sophie’s Choice actors will face when deciding to allow AI replica rights (a choice the A-list can reject more easily, but not up-and-comers). Also: Elaine Low details five TV agents’ assessments of what streamers want to buy these days, and Richard Rushfield foretells A24’s dangerous trajectory.
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Your AI conversation completely ignored the guardrails SAG-AFTRA achieved for talent both in terms of consent and compensation. Absolutely still areas of concern as this technology rolls out and enforcement will be key but there ARE contractual protections against producers “doing whatever” with a performers scan.