03/18/2025

Hollywood Warns about AI Industry’s Push to Change Copyright Law

Hundreds of people have signed a letter to the government challenging OpenAI

A who's who of musicians, actors, directors and more have teamed up to sound the alarm as AI leaders including OpenAI and Google argue that they shouldn't have to pay copyright holders for AI training material.

In an open letter, submitted to the White House Office of Science and Technology, more than 400 members of the entertainment community expressed concerns about the wish lists of AI companies for the U.S. AI Action Plan. Those recommendations, the letter warned, could severely damage the entertainment community, which supports more than 2.3 million jobs whose wages currently top $229 billion per year. The group urged the Trump administration to not sacrifice America’s leadership in the world of entertainment in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.

"We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries," the group wrote. "America's arts and entertainment industry… [provides] the foundation for American democratic influence and soft power abroad. But AI companies are asking to undermine this economic and cultural strength by weakening copyright protections for the films, television series, artworks, writing, music and voices used to train AI models."

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