Day: August 20, 2023

WGA West upgrades it battle: Tells government to regulate Disney, Netflix, and Amazon!

As Hollywood faces rains from Tropical Storm Hilary, another storm continues to play out: The ongoing writers strike may have just upgraded to hurricane status..

MORE..

The WGA West escalated its fight against the AMPTP in the ongoing writer’s strike by calling on the government to regulate Disney, Netflix, and Amazon for monopolistic practices!!

Released on Thursday, the report from the WGA West, titled “The New Gatekeepers: How Disney, Amazon, and Netflix Will Take Over Media,” said that studios have been engaging in “anti-competitive practices” by “abusing their dominance to further disadvantage competitors, raise prices for consumers, and push down wages for the creative workforce.”

“Without intervention, these conglomerates will seize control of the media landscape and the streaming era’s advances for creativity and choice will be lost. These new gatekeepers have amassed market power through mergers and other anti-competitive practices, offering an alarming window into the future of media,” the report said.

The escalations reveals the extreme measures both sides are going to publicly. This appears to be producing a drought of upcoming Hollywood entertainment..

DEVELOPING..

August 20, 2023
A tropical earthquake

The timing sure is strange, while Southern California braces for its first tropical storm, and 80+ years and earthquake struck. How about that…. a magnitude 5.1 earthquake, according to the US Geological Survey.

The epicenter of the quake was in Ojai, between Santa Barbara and Ventura, and it occurred along the Sisar fault, USGS data showed.

There were no immediate reports of damage, the Ventura County Sheriff said in a social media post.

Shaking was felt throughout Los Angeles and surrounding communities, according to a USGS tool that allows residents to self-report their experience. About 50 miles away in Valencia, the quake felt like a slow roll, lasting about 20 seconds. Residents reported a slow-rolling effect in the Hollywood area, as well.

At least two aftershocks — measuring 3.1 and 3.6 — followed the initial quake.

Developing..

August 20, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Lawsuit: AI-Generated Art Not Copyrightable

This confirms the tenet what copyright protection rooms are only available for things created by human..

This is all happening very quickly..

A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection. The ruling was delivered in an order turning down Stephen Thaler’s bid challenging the government’s position refusing to register works made by AI. Copyright law has “never stretched so far” to “protect works generated by new forms of technology operating absent any guiding human hand,” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found.
— Read on www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ai-works-not-copyrightable-studios-1235570316/

August 20, 2023