SAG-AFTRA said that AMPTP's AI plan included scanning background actors and using their likeness "for the rest of eternity."

SAG-AFTRA said that AMPTP’s AI plan included scanning background actors and using their likenesses “for the rest of eternity.”

  • atempuser23@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s common in Hollywood for a studio to ask for right in perpetuity for any digital asset. That is so that if they remaster a movie they have everything they need to make it without having to get lawyers and contracts involved.

    The directors cut is technically a different movie than then regular one and is different from an 8k remaster in the future.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s a very different issue to someone making an entirely new movie, with that scan as a “character” though.

      • atempuser23@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Not different at all. Actors do mo-cap work all the time and the performance data is owned by the studio and can be reused on different movies without royalties. The studios are trying to extend that. I see both sides. If the actors don’t take a stand it could be tragic.