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Network of 14 Guilds from 12 countries representing film & TV writers. Collective bargaining. Credits. Unions. AI. Intellectual property.
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International Affiliation of Writers Guilds @iawg.bsky.social · 17d
Funding bodies and production tax incentives in several countries are already making “Made By Humans” a condition. 👏🏻
‘Pluribus’ Includes “Made By Humans” Disclaimer In Credits Amid AI Discourse
As artificial intelligence becomes less discernible and more prevalent, Vince Gilligan is setting an example about transparency with 'Pluribus'.
deadline.com
iawg.bsky.social
Well done, German civil society. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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aselrod.bsky.social
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.

And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.

What does OpenAI offer the world?
histoftech.bsky.social Mar @histoftech.bsky.social · 19d
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
iawg.bsky.social
Funding bodies and production tax incentives in several countries are already making “Made By Humans” a condition. 👏🏻
‘Pluribus’ Includes “Made By Humans” Disclaimer In Credits Amid AI Discourse
As artificial intelligence becomes less discernible and more prevalent, Vince Gilligan is setting an example about transparency with 'Pluribus'.
deadline.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
iawg.bsky.social
Australia’s on a roll …

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streaming services will be made to produce Australian content
Australian government is introducing laws requiring streamers to invest a minimum amount in local content.
www.bbc.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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ednewtonrex.bsky.social
In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌

They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law.

Other governments should do the same!

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
October 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
iawg.bsky.social
“Artificial intelligence presents significant opportunities for Australia and our economy; however, it’s important that Australian creatives benefit from these opportunities too”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI
Attorney general Michelle Rowland shuts down contentious proposal to grant copyright exemption for AI models
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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theatlantic.com
Jane Austen. Spike Lee. MrBeast. “Modern Family.” The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog search tool lets you see which creative works tech companies may have used to train their generative-AI models: https://theatln.tc/vQSlfiyC
October 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
iawg.bsky.social
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig... Question for Mr. Altman and @thr.com: Who are the excited rightsholders, precisely?
OpenAI Promises “More Granular” Control of IP in Sora After Hollywood Characters Flood Video App
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said late Friday that the tech company would also explore a revenue share with rightsholders.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
iawg.bsky.social
Who has the dirt on what Sam Altman is telling/promising agents and studios?

www.reuters.com/technology/o...
OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports
OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless right holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
www.reuters.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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edzitron.com
Here’s part 1 of our four-part Better Offline case against generative AI. I walk you through how generative AI is sold through a complete misunderstanding of the concept of labor - and myth-building by companies like NVIDIA and OpenAI.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1)
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 09/30/2025 · 25m
podcasts.apple.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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molly.wiki
Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia
Tweet by David Sacks: "Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem."
September 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
iawg.bsky.social
A welcome move by China. Hope it is noted and discussed at Mondiacult at the end of the month. @jenniferdavidson.bsky.social
mmitchell.bsky.social Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Sep 2
🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content.
www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c...
Translating in 🧵.
Chinese writing, with last phrase highlight. Something like, 第七条 互联网应用程序分发平台在应用程序上架或者上线审核时,应当要求互联网应用程序服务提供者说明是否提供人工智能生 务。互联网应用程序服务提供者提供人工智能生成合成服务的,互联网应用程序分发平台应当核验其生成合成内容标识相关材料。 第八条 服务提供者应当在用户服务协议中明确说明生成合成内容标识的方法、样式等规范内容,并提示用户仔细阅读并理解相关 理要求。 第九条 用户申请服务提供者提供没有添加显式标识的生成合成内容的,服务提供者可以在通过用户协议明确用户的标识义务和 后,提供不含显式标识的生成合成内容,并依法留存提供对象信息等相关日志不少于六个月。 第十条 用户使用网络信息内容传播服务发布生成合成内容的,应当主动声明并使用服务提供者提供的标识功能进行标识。 任何组织和个人不得恶意删除、篡改、伪造、隐匿本办法规定的生成合成内容标识,不得为他人实施上述恶意行为提供工具或者 得通过不正当标识手段损害他人合法权益。 第十一条 服务提供者开展标识活动的,还应当符合相关法律、行政法规、部门规章和强制性国家标准的要求。 第十二条 服务提供者在履行算法备案、安全评估等手续时,应当按照本办法提供生成合成内容标识相关材料,并加强标识信息共 范打击相关违法犯罪活动提供支持和帮助。 第十三条 违反本办法规定的,由网信、电信、公安和广播电视等有关主管部门依据职责,按照有关法律、行政法规、部门规章的 处理。 第十四条 本办法自2025年9月1日起施行。
September 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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wgawest.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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wgaeast.bsky.social
The Writers Guild of America East will no longer be active on X.com. 

Please follow the Guild on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/wgae... and on Instagram, TikTok, and Threads at WGAEast.
The Writers Guild of America East will no longer be active on X.com.   The racist and antisemitic language generated by X.com’s AI (“Grok”) after a software update directed by Elon Musk is further evidence of the urgent need for common sense regulation and oversight of artificial intelligence technology.  We look forward to engaging with you on other platforms.
July 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
iawg.bsky.social
Jason with important clarity on the Meta lawsuit summary judgment.
kint.bsky.social Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · Jun 25
And...yes. Another big AI decision. When a win is maybe not a win. The AI training is fair use cult may be very disappointed by Meta's Summary Judgment "victory" in its copyright suit. Be very very careful not to be spun by Meta's proxies and advocates.
READ THE ACTUAL OPINION CLOSELY. /1
June 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
iawg.bsky.social
Some analysis of the two big generative AI copyright cases in the US this week (Anthropic and Meta)
chup.blakereid.org Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · Jun 25
...and just in case you thought Judge Alsup's framework for generative AI and copyright was going to uncontroversially become the law of the land, here's Judge Chhabria coming off the top rope with a sharp critique and a totally different approach
Speaking of which, in a recent rulingon this topic,Judge Alsup focused heavily on the transformative nature of generative AI while brushing aside concerns about the harm it can inflict on the market for the works it gets trained on. Such harm would be no different, he reasoned, than the harm caused by using the works for “training schoolchildren to write well,”which could “result in an explosion of competing works.” Order on Fair Use at 28, Bartz v. AnthropicPBC, No. 24-cv-5417 (N.D. Cal. June 23, 2025), Dkt. No. 231. According to Judge Alsup, this “is not the kind of competitive or creative displacement that concerns the Copyright Act.” Id.But when it comes to market effects, using books to teach children to write is not remotely like using books to create a product that a single individual could employ to generate countless competing works with a miniscule fraction of the time and creativity it would otherwise take.This inapt analogy is not a basis for blowing off the most important factor in the fair use analysis.
June 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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fsescreenwriters.bsky.social
FSE cosigned the Manifesto for the Protection of Authentic Creation launched by SARTEC and other Quebec unions representing #creators, #performers, craftspeople and technicians in the #audiovisual and music industries.
🟥 Read more and sign: lartesthumain.com/en/
Art is Human - Manifesto for the Protection of Authentic Creation
The development of AI in culture must be done with the community, for the community, and in a careful, reasonable, and well-thought-out manner, because art is Human!
lartesthumain.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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fsescreenwriters.bsky.social
FSE co-signed open letter to EU Ministers of #Culture ahead of Council on 12-13 May. They have a prominent role to play on specific impact of #AI on European #CulturalDiversity & #ArtisticFreedom.
federationscreenwriters.eu/open-letter-...
#generativeAI #copyright #democracy
Open letter to EU Ministers of Culture on AI - FSE - Federation of Screenwriters in Europe
FSE co-signed an open letter to the attention of the European Ministers of Culture ahead of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council on 12-13 May 2025. They now have a prominent role to play on...
federationscreenwriters.eu
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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writersguildirl.bsky.social
Our friends at Film
Ireland have released a special series of podcasts from our World Conference of Screenwriters last year. You can listen back to the first day of panels and discussions here @iawg.bsky.social filmireland.net/category/pod...
Podcast – Film Ireland Magazine
In the Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Stephen Bradley , Director of ‘Fran the Man’
filmireland.net
April 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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fsescreenwriters.bsky.social
FSE is part of a broad coalition of organisations in Europe’s creative and cultural sectors. Together we launch a campaign on the #AIAct. Keywords: Transparency. Consent. Remuneration. We call on EU policymakers to #StayTrueToTheAct.
#AI #screenwriters #creators #copyright
staytruetotheact.eu
May 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
iawg.bsky.social
Collecting reactions to proposals for the US to exempt AI training from copyright law:

1. Includes complete letter from Hollywood creatives

deadline.com/2025/03/trum...
‘Matrix’ Co-Creator & Hundreds Of Hollywood A-Listers Want To Stop AI Obliterating Copyright Laws; Lilly Wachowski, Paul McCartney, Ava DuVernay, Cate Blanchett, Alfonso Cuarón + More Write White Hous...
Hundreds of Hollywood players sent a letter to the White House warning the entertainment industry is at risk from AI if copyright isn't protected.
deadline.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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rdbinns.bsky.social
Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training.

I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
Newspaper stand with newspapers all carrying the front page Campaign 'make it fAIr'
February 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
iawg.bsky.social
Interesting that Open AI says it can’t remove contested ©️ works NOT because it’s technically impossible but because they must preserve all training data as evidence in myriad other lawsuits.

www.fastcompany.com/91265555/ope...
OpenAI says India court can't hear case on alleged copyright breach
In the most high-profile and closely tracked lawsuit on AI use in India, ANI sued OpenAI in Delhi in November, accusing it of using the news agency's published content without permission to train Chat...
www.fastcompany.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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katie-drummond.bsky.social
Mark Zuckerberg appears to have personally approved training Meta's genAI models on an entire "shadow library" of pirated books:

www.wired.com/story/new-do...
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
iawg.bsky.social
Groceries for Writers is continuing for those affected by the fires. Please consider donating if you’re able.
humanitasprize.bsky.social Humanitas @humanitasprize.bsky.social · Dec 18
Groceries for Writers has 20 gift cards for writers and support staff to subsidize grocery $ for the Holidays. Cards are distributed on a first come, first served basis and will be sent EOD on 12/20 Link in bio for more info.
January 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM