Talent agency CAA slams OpenAI's AI video generation app Sora for posing 'significant risk' to its clients
Talent agency CAA called OpenAI's AI video generation app Sora a "significant risk" to its clients and intellectual property. The agency that represents artists including Doja Cat, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Hanks said OpenAI was "dismissing creators' rights.
"Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesThe talent agency, which represents artists including Doja Cat, Scarlett Johanson, and Tom Hanks, questioned whether OpenAI believed that "humans, writers, artists, actors, directors, producers, musicians, and athletes deserve to be compensated and credited for the work they create." "Or does Open AI believe they can just steal it, disregarding global copyright principles and blatantly dismissing creators' rights, as well as the many people and companies who fund the production, creation, and publication of these humans' work? In our opinion, the answer to this question is obvious," the CAA wrote.The CAA said that it was "open to hearing" solutions from OpenAI and is working with IP leaders, unions, legislators and global policymakers on the matter. "Control, permission for use, and compensation is a fundamental right of these workers," the CAA wrote. "Anything less than the protection of creators and their rights is unacceptable."'Focus on value creation; the stock market will settle itself,' says Snowflake CEO amid bubble fearsAMD's deal with OpenAI gives Nvidia much-needed challenger in a market it dominatesrightsholders Talent agency WME sent a memo to agents on Wednesday that it has "notified OpenAI that all WME clients be opted out of the latest Sora AI update, regardless of whether IP rights holders have opted out IP our clients are associated with," the LA Times In a letter written to OpenAI last week, Disney said it did not authorize OpenAI and Sora to copy, distribute, publicly display or perform any image or video that features its copyrighted works and characters, according to a person familiar with the matter. Disney also wrote that it did not have an obligation to "opt-out" of appearing in Sora or any OpenAI system to preserve its rights under copyright law, the person said.on Tuesday, urging OpenAI to take "immediate and decisive action" against videos using Sora to produce content infringing on its copyrighted material.in June, alleging that the company used and distributed AI-generated characters from their movies despite requests to stop. Disney also sent a cease-and-desist letter to AI startup
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