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Cinematographers Discuss AI Legal and Creative Issues at Camerimage: ‘Don’t Be Fearful of Technology’
AI legal and creative issues were the subject of an American Society of Cinematographers-presented panel during Camerimage.
The American Society of Cinematographers presented a discussion about artificial intelligence, focused on how it’s being used today in filmmaking and its legal implications, during cinematography festival EnergaCamerimage. To the latter, there were a lot of questions for panelist Angela Dunning, an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb, including those surrounding copyright class-action suits against developers for the training of AI models. “The position that I think will prevail in the U.S. when all the dust settles after court decisions and appeals, is that that training is fair use,” she said, noting that this is an area in which she is currently working and suggesting that it’s “very much like the human process of ingesting information.” As an example, she suggested that one might “learn what a flower is from a garden, from your books your mom used to read you, from pictures of flowers in a magazine, from paintings that Georgia O’Keeffe has hanging in the museum.
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