WME Joins New York Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI

Hollywood giant WME just jumped into the massive copyright battle against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Ari Emanuel chaired agency filed an amicus brief on October thirty. They are not trying to stop artificial intelligence from using creative materials. They just want creators to get paid through proper licensing deals. This nearly three-year-old lawsuit already features famous authors like George R.R. Martin and John Grisham. It also follows a joint filing from major writer and actor unions slamming OpenAI for taking work from working people. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice previously argued that training large language models on copyrighted text does not violate the law. But WME points out that the market is already shifting toward paid partnerships. They noted that News Corp secured a five-year, two hundred fifty million dollar agreement with OpenAI. Reddit also landed a sixty million dollar deal with Google. Shutterstock pulled in up to fifty million dollars from Apple, Amazon, and Google. WME wants to make sure creators keep the power to decide if their protected work builds future artificial intelligence systems.