Sam Altman is Squaring off against Hollywood with the new Sora

Nice Catalog of Stories, Characters, and Intellectual Property You Have There.

We’ll be taking it now.

That appears to be what openai is saying to Hollywood: The Wall Street Journal Reports that the Company Been Chatgt has been telling studios and talent agencies that a new version of it Sora video creator Will Produce Work Based on Hollywood Characters and Other Copyrized Work – Without Explicit Permo From the Rights Holders.

If studios or other copyright owners have a problem with that, they can go ahead and tel openai that they want to opt out, wsj reports. But they’ll have to do via a laborious, case-by-cae basis.

All of which Means Openai SEEMS to be trying to rewrite copyright law, on the fly: your stuff is our stuff, for free – unless you tell us otherwise.

And if that what openai is actually doing – and if it holds up in court – it is a radical transformation of the way the media.

Openai, Responding to Questions from Me, Said Its Products Can Provide “New Opportunities” for Creators to Engage with fans. “We’re Working with Rights Holders to Understand their preferences for how they have an appetars acrossy ecosystem, Including Sora,” Said Varun Shetty, Its Head of Media Partnerships. (While we are here: Axel Springer, Business Insider’s Parent Company, has a Commercial Aggrement with Openai.)

Caveat: It”s Still Unclear to Me Exactly How Far Openai Thinks it can go. COULD SOMOON GO AHEAD AND TELL SORE TO “RECREATE The Cantina Skene from ‘Star Wars’ – or Will It Just Allow to Use Prompts Like” Make a New Schene Using Characters and Settings Similar to the Cantina From ‘Star Wars?’ “

But any version of that will will still be a nightmare for contents Owners, and a meaningful shift from the setup they escalate with the last generation of Big Tech Platforms, Like Google: Upload what they want to platforms like youtube or twitter – but have extensive and sophistic systems for taking or managing copyregted material.

That Legal Framework was budilt in the first half of the 2010s. And while the legal rules around he are still up for grabs, what SEEMS like the beginning of a consensus to be forming, via some early court decides: he engines like the ability to train. supposed to use that that data to create replacements for copyighted materials.

WHOCH IS WHY OPENAI’S SEEMINGLY AGGRESSIVE STANCE TOWARD HOLLYWOOD SEEMS STUNNING: THERE NO DEBATE USER-UPLOADED CAROTONS HAN SOLO AND LUKE Skywalker Could Disney’s Copyright. But openai seames to be saying that its he engine could do the Same Thing byithout Violating Copyright – and that it is to do only prevent that if disney complained in advance.

It is Worth Notting that YouTube, in Its Earliest Form, was a Little Act Now, ASA-For-Forgoveness-Later itself.

Court Documents in Its Viacom Court Case Made It Clear That Its Founders-The Site Existed as A Stand-Alone Company for About A Year and A Half Bell Bowht It In 2006-Knew YouTube Copyright, But Kept Growing Full-Ske Questions. IT TOOK YEARS FOR YOUTUBE, and Google, to Come to Copyright Owners.

So It ‘s postsible that openai’s leaders think they doing the same thing, too – flush for the sampry use of copyright now, and assuming it figure the legal and business solutions late.

That’s the Kind of Move You Make You Think You Have the Leverage: That Your Resources, Speed, and Momentum Mean Eveling will have to Catch up to the Terms you’re Proposing. We’ll see if they’re right.