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Will the WGAW Prevail over Village Roadshow Productions?
by Larry Brody
If what this email from the WGAW is true, and I assume it is because WGAW, I urge all my Guild member friends and TVWriter.Com visitors to pay attention and do the right thing.
Dear Members,
We are writing to alert you that WGA members are prohibited under Working Rule 8 from performing writing services for, or optioning or selling literary material to, Village Roadshow Productions Inc., or any affiliate thereof.
UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI
Surprise! Enjoy the least surprising headline of the day:
UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI
by
Dan Milmo and Robert Booth
Campaigners for the protection of the rights of creatives have criticised a UK government proposal to let artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms on their works under a new copyright exemption.
Book publishers said the proposal put out for consultation on Tuesday was “entirely untested and unevidenced” while Beeban Kidron, a crossbench peer campaigning to protect artists’ and creatives’ rights, said she was “very disappointed”.
Once More into the Breech: WGA Girds its Loins…
by Larry Brody
This email from the WGAW and WGAE clearly is a shot across the bow of the big studios. I’m sure that, for better or worse, there will be a lot more to come:
Dear Members,
Yesterday, the WGA sent the following letter to the CEOs of Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Paramount Global, NBCUniversal, Sony, Netflix, and Amazon MGM Studios:
The Journey to My Sixth Feature Started with TVWriter.Com
Hard-working – and very talented – producer/writer/director Matt Wilson has a tale to tell about his latest film (and an “Aw Shucks” mention about TVWriter.Com) Enjoy!
By Matthew Wilson
The first industry recognition I ever received came in 2001 when Larry
Brody read and liked some of my animation sample scripts that I sent to TVWriter.com. This set me on a course to eventually meeting animation producers and getting hired to write for Krypto: The Superdog. My first big break.
Time for a writerly comic or two
Found at GoComics.Com.
by LB
Oh, and here’s a quote from one of my favorite network execs. (Okay, not so favorite an exec because he did indeed drive me crazily into the arms of a little pill called Xanax, but definitely a valued friend):