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MPA Says Copyright Law Must Be Defended In AI Age
In comments to the White House as the Trump Administration develops its AI Action Plan, the MPA said copyright law must be defended. Its CEO Charlie Rivkin echoed that belief.
MPA President and CEO Charlie Rivkin echoed the sentiments in an interview with Deadline ahead of CinemaCon, the gathering of exhibitors and studios that started today in Las Vegas. The letter comes as Hollywood guilds have slammed the MPA and its members for not being more vocal or taking to the courts — yet, at least — even as dozens of content creators from Sarah Silverman to the New York Times have sued AI giants for sucking up copyrighted material to train their models. In December, t he WGA said Hollywood studios have “harmed” its members and violated the Minimum Basic Agreement by not acting as their copyrighted works were used to train generative AI models.
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