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Host Peter Csathy was recently interviewed by Robert Milazzo who is a professor, creator and founder of The Modern School of Film — an educational studio that has produced hundreds of masterclasses and educational events to explore the intersections of community, craft and culture. Our topic? “AI Entrepreneurship.” It’s a wide-ranging discussion that bounced from the practical and pragmatic (getti...

In this emergency episode, AI/media expert Peter Csathy's co-hosts discuss his just-posted written analysis of the first federal Judge's ruling on the critical issue of "fair use" in the context of generative AI. The decision was just handed down by Judge Alsup in the Northern District of California - and Csathy read and analyzed the full decision to see what it all means for b...

Last week, just in time for Cannes Lions 2025 — the most important advertising industry soiree of the year — New York’s legislature passed a groundbreaking new law that requires advertisers (and those who create those ads) to conspicuously disclose when an AI-generated “synthetic human” is used in ads. SAG-AFTRA called New York’s new law “ a historic move marking a new era of transparency in artif...

Last week, host Peter Csathy called for Hollywood studios to finally cast aside their silence and join the AI copyright fight - to loudly voice the creative community's concerns about AI developers using their copyrighted works without consent and compensation. And two days later, Disney and NBCUniversal finally did - they sued generative image AI company Midjourney. In this episode, Csathy&a...

Peter Csathy's synthetic co-hosts discuss Csathy's most recent article that discusses and analyzes where things stand in the current AI copyright infringement / "fair use" battle royale that is playing out between media and big tech companies in the federal courts. Csathy lays out the current state of affairs -- how federal courts have already decided (or soon will decide the &...

This episode features a discussion of the great debate that is front and center now about OpenAI's new image generator, and how it's being widely used by users around the world to create anime art based on the "style" of famed anime artist Hayao MIyazaki. Many creative artists find what OpenAI is enabling to be infringing Miyazaki's works. But OpenAI and Silicon Valley in...

Host Peter Csathy's "synthetic" co-hosts discuss a sobering reality that faces all websites (not just media publishers and entertainment companies). For general purpose search, consumers increasingly turn to conversational AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude — as well as to more utilitarian AI search engines like Perplexity — instead of traditi...

Host Peter Csathy recently was a guest on Ricky Sutton's "Future Media" podcast to discuss the recent rejection of "fair use" as a defense to AI training infringement by the federal judge in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence. Peter discusses all the relevant business and legal issues that arise in the context of generative AI scraping of copyrighted works without consen...

In this episode, Peter Csathy's "synthetic" co-hosts discuss his most recent article that asks the provocative question, "Is 100% ethically sourced generative AI even possible?" Csathy's article lays out both sides of the argument - those who say it is possible (and must be done via content licensing), and those who simply believe it's too daunting and too hard (...

This discussion focuses on host Peter Csathy's latest feature article of the same name, which explores whether AI can ever create truly "original" and groundbreaking Art without humans controlling it as a tool to their own human creation. The discussion focuses on what uniquely makes human "creation" divine and unmatchable by AI content generation. Csathy argues that left...

Host Peter Csathy recently was a featured speaker at ThinkLA’s big AI-focused event (ThinkLA serves marketing and media executives). Peter invited CEO Eric Shamlin of production company Secret Level to join him. Shamlin and his team created the iconic AI-generated “Holidays Are Coming” Coke ad that became THE marketing story this past December.   In this exclusive “fireside chat,” Peter and Eric d...

In this episode, based on Peter Csathy's article of the same name, Peter's "synth" hosts discuss the central issue of remedies and damages for winning rights-holders in generative AI copyright cases -- and, relatedly, how the courts will even begin to assess monetary damages in a world where the relevant “harm” caused by an entire internet’s worth of unlicensed scraping has alr...

This episode is a discussion of host Peter Csathy's new article titled, "Court Rejects AI's Fair Use: Now What?" (generated using Google NotebookLM). Csathy's article discusses all the issues raised by (and ramifications of) Judge Stephen Bibas's recent game-changing rejection of "fair use" as a defense to unlicensed AI scraping in the Thomson Reuters v. Ros...

In this special episode, based on host Peter Csathy's most recent emergency newsletter about the recent bombshell Thomson Reuters court ruling, Csathy's synthetic co-hosts discuss the court's rejection of "fair use" as a defense to AI training on copyrighted works without consent and compensation. It's the first "fair use" decision in the world of copyright...

This special episode discusses host Peter Csathy's latest article about DeepSeek and its potential massive implications on the media and entertainment industry (not to mention U.S. generative AI developers). The conversation is hosted by Google NotebookLM's synthetic co-hosts (but Csathy has listened to the generated podcast, and believes it is largely consistent with the perspectives he...

Host Peter Csathy of Creative Media sits down for an exclusive conversation with Andy Beach , former CTO of Microsoft's Media and Entertainment group, who just left his position after being with Microsoft for 10 years. The two discuss and debate how generative AI is impacting Hollywood and the entire creative community today, and where they believe it's all going in the years to come.  T...

There was a time when “bulk” was the metric that mattered most to Big Tech for video content (“data”) needed for GenAI training purposes. In fact, those times were just months ago. “The more, the better!” was Silicon Valley’s mantra. But those times are over, and they aren’t coming back. Licensing’s life-cycle has moved on. Welcome to the brave new world of video licensing — GenAI “fine tuning” st...

This episode features a summary and discussion of the latest developments (as of January 25th, 2025) in 10 key litigations brought by media companies and individual creators against generative Ai developers (on the issues of copyright infringement and related legal claims). Partner Avery Williams of leading rights-holder law firm McKool Smith compiles, discusses and regularly updates the "AI...

This episode features a summary and discussion of the most recent major developments in 10 key litigations brought by media companies and individual creators against generative Ai developers (on the issues of copyright infringement and related legal claims). Partner Avery Williams of leading rights-holder law firm McKool Smith compiles the "AI Litigation Tracker" (and this summary and di...

Peter Csathy's synthetic co-hosts summarize and discuss the new exclusive analysis by NYU Professors Howie Singer, Joao Sedoc, and Foster Provost of the 10,000+ submissions to the U.S. Copyright Office commenting on the question of copyrightability and fair use in the context of generative AI. This analysis is the first comprehensive analysis of every single submission, which was able to be d...

Host and AI/media expert Peter Csathy, Chairman of Creative Media, lays out his closely-watched annual 10 predictions for how generative AI will impact the world of media and entertainment in 2025. Sign up for the companion "the brAIn" newsletter via this link . Check out Peter and his firm Creative Media Check out Peter's LinkedIn bio here . And send feedback to bizdev@creativemedi...

In this episode, Peter features his exclusive interview with founder and CEO Will Kreth of HAND (Human and Digital), a company focused on developing the world's first standardized "talent ID" system for generative AI and more -- i.e., the first global B2B Talent ID registry platform for efficient discoverability, royalty collection, and revenue tracking of notable legal and natural...

In this episode, Peter Csathy's co-hosts discuss his new article titled, " Raw Deal: The OpenAI Court Got It Wrong - Raw Story Media's Lawsuit Was Wrongly Dismissed on 'Standing' Grounds" . In his article, Csathy discusses the recent dismissal by a federal judge of Raw Story Media's lawsuit against OpenAI on "standing" grounds. Raw Story had alleged tha...

In this episode, Peter Csathy's co-hosts discuss his article of the same title - including the key AI-related content licensing deals to date, and where things to be heading in the epic copyright infringement/"fair use" battles that increasingly fill the courts between major rights-holders and big tech. Peter generated this episode using Google NotebookLM - and "approves"...

Last week, host Peter Csathy wrote not once but twice about Perplexity in his companion newsletter. And for good reason. He first posted an analysis based on The New York Times ’ recent “cease and desist” demand to Perplexity. And then News Corp actually filed formal litigation against Perplexity for similar reasons.  Perplexity responded to News Corp's litigation. Not in the actual courts. R...