Trump Hollywood: Don’t let OPENAI and Google train on our copyright work

The fight between the creators and the AI ​​Tech Titans over the Copyright and License Act is heated. In a Letter sent On the Science and Technology Policy of the Trump Administration on March 15, over 400 participants, writers and directors called on the government to comply with this copyright law.

Signatures include Paul McCartneyGuillermo del Toro, Ava Duvernay, Cynthia Erivo, Phoebe Waller-Brridge, Io Edebiri, Chris Rock and Mark Rufalo. The letter specifically asks the government not to provide exceptions to fair use of technology companies that train AI.

Honest use is a basic concept in the Copyright Act, which gives people an exception to use protected content, even if they are not the copyright holder, in limited and specific cases. Previously, AI companies hungry for human -generated content for training and improving their AI models must pay publishers and catalogs of the content to access this material. The exception to honest use would make it easier for technology companies to access content without expensive legal obstacles.

Google and Openai have proposed similar changes to this Copyright Act in their AI AI Action Plan proposals. Google wrote The fact that such exceptions allow him to “avoid often highly unpredictable, unbalanced and prolonged negotiations with data owners while developing the model.” OPENAI wrote that the protection of fair use for AI is needed to protect US national security.

Part of the recent government impetus to AI is fears about the loss of global position and a technological advantage of the development of AI for opponents such as China. Chinese AI, such as Chatgpt rival Deepseekcontinues to process, but concern is full of it Security and RayS

In other words, technology companies such as Google and Openai, each of which is estimated at the market border in the hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars, do not want to go through the established legal process and pay for the rights to the content they need to make their AIS competitive with those developing by China. And they want the Trump administration to codify their protection as part of its AI action plan.

The Hollywood signatures strongly oppose the possibility of such a rewriting of the Copyright Act. “America has not become a global cultural power plant by accident,” the letter said. “Our success stems directly from our basic respect for IP and copyright that reward the creative taking of risk of talented and hardworking Americans from every country and territory.”

US Copyright Service has been guidance on how to deal with copyright claims for AI content generated. But people have been worried for years – and even judge – How AI models are trained in a way that potentially violates the rights of copyright holders. The double strikes in the summer of 2023 by members of the Writers of America and the Guild of Actors on the screen and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists or SAG-AFTRA, AI included as one of their main concerns. Neither Openai nor Google have shared exactly what content is its training databases for Chatgpt and Gemini.

The copyright equation becomes even more complicated as we know about at least one company that is received a copyright claim For an image whose each part is generated by AI. It leaves room for uncertainty on each side of the mess, which is copyright and AI.

Trump and AI Administration

So far, it has not been much meaningful in government supervision or legislation that regulates how technological giants such as Openai and Google are developing AI. Former President Biden received many of the big technology companies voluntary pledge To develop AI responsibly and try to accept some railings around the development of AI through an enforcement order. But within hours after detection, Trump was rolling back AI’s executive order of Biden with one of his own.

In his own AI executive order, Trump said he wanted to “maintain and improve the global domination of AIC of America.” The AI ​​action plan is how it plans to accept its version of technological policy. Vice President Vance presented the plan and broadly the opinion of the technology administration, at an international summit of AI in January.

Vance said: “When conferences like this one are used to discussing avant -garde technology, often, I think our answer is to be too conscious, too risky. But I have never encountered a breakthrough in technology that makes us so clear to do the opposite.”

In addition to the feedback call, January Enforcement order President Trump has called on the US AI to be “free from ideological biases or engineering social programs.”

At the same time, technological leaders like Google and Sam Altman’s Sundar Pichai by Openai make fun of the new administration. Altman donated A million dollars of your own money at the Trump and Google Instrument Fund as a company Donate the same. Altman and Pichai received seats from the first row for the oath ceremony, along with Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Elon Musk from Amazon and Jeff Bezos of the Amazon. Managers probably hope that getting the good side of Trump will help them make the way for the future of their technology company – even in this case it will upset the decades of the established copyright law.

Many groups of people – not just creators – are worried that unregulated development and use of AI can be disastrous.

What next for copyright and AI?

The US Copyright Service is expected to publish another AI report, in particular on “legal consequences of training AI copyright models, reasons for licensing and distribution of any potential responsibility”.

In the meantime, a number of active lawsuits may determine important precedents for the court branch. Thomson Reuters Just as you win your case This said that AI company has no case of honest use to use its content to build AI. Legislation as Without counterfeits does not act It also penetrates the congress, but it is not clear what future AI legislation will be.

For more information, see How AI and the Art Conside in SXSW and Why Anti-AI bet of a company resonates with the creatorsS