If Sora (OpenAI’s video generator) can produce a photorealistic short film from a text prompt, what happens to set designers, camera operators, or stunt doubles? Similarly, voice cloning threatens voice actors, and AI scriptwriting threatens screenwriters (as evidenced by the 2023 WGA strikes).
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The ethical and legal battles over AI training data (using copyrighted books, scripts, and art to train models without consent) will define the next decade of media law. How we pay for entertainment and media content has reversed. In the 20th century, we bought physical goods (CDs, DVDs, books). In the early 21st century, we bought digital downloads (iTunes, Kindle). Now, we rent access via subscriptions (SaaS for media). If Sora (OpenAI’s video generator) can produce a