Tag: #rightofpublicity

A Case Study: George Carlin, Artificial Intelligence and the Right of Publicity

susan
Carolyn Wimbly Martin, Sara Etemad-Moghadam and Ella Sands
Copyright Law + Entertainment, Culture and the Arts + Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

In January 2024 Dudesy, an AI-assisted podcast, released a new hourlong special titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” featuring a version of the late comedian George Carlin (“Carlin”) allegedly generated by artificial intelligence (“AI”). Dudesy is a comedy podcast written, created and controlled by AI, and is hosted by “Mad TV” alum Will Sasso […]

Read more

The Writers Guild of America Strike, the Creative Industry and Artificial Intelligence

susan
Carolyn Wimbly Martin and Dana Sussman
Copyright Law + Entertainment, Culture and the Arts + Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

Update: On June 4, 2023, the Directors Guild of America (“DGA”) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (“AMPTP”) reached a tentative agreement, with ratification scheduled for June 6. AMPTP and the DGA have agreed that AI is not a person and therefore cannot be used to replace the duties performed by DGA […]

Read more

Copyright Infringement of Photographs and Reclaiming Publicity Rights Through NFTs

susan
Carolyn Wimbly Martin and Margaret Horstman
Copyright Law

Richard Prince is a controversial artist known for appropriating third party images. Prince initially drew criticism in the 1980s when he took a photograph of a Marlboro advertisement and simply removed the word “Marlboro” from the picture. One of Prince’s appropriated Marlboro pieces earned him more than a million dollars in 2005 and another earned […]

Read more