Peter Csathy is a WrapPRO contributor writing about the intersection between tech and entertainment/media. He’s a leading expert and chairman of Creative Media, a boutique media, entertainment and tech business advisory and legal services firm. He also serves as CEO of Deep Cuts Media, a music IP and catalog representation and advisory firm. His “Fearless Media” newsletter covers the future of entertainment, media and tech. You can reach out to him at peter@creativemedia.biz and follow him on Threads @pcsathy.
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Artists Face an Uphill Battle Against AI in Copyright Cases | PRO Insight
A federal judge is skeptical that training software on creative works constitutes infringement
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San Francisco’s Beating Heart Is on Display at Outside Lands
The City by the Bay remains a hub of creativity and innovation for the entertainment industry, and Hollywood should take note
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Creators Now Have a Voice to Counter AI | PRO Insight
The Human Artistry Campaign has hired Moiya McTier and is calling for a federal right of publicity as it lends support to the Hollywood strikes
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Watch Out, Apple – Another Disney Buyer Could Be Emerging | PRO Insight
With Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ return, Blackstone has a foot inside the House of Mouse
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X Marks the Spot for Elon Musk’s Race to the Bottom | PRO Insight
After he eviscerated Twitter, why would we give our financial information to the ruthless entrepreneur’s new super app?
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No More Mr. Nice Guy: Bob Iger May Just Want to Sell Disney and Be Done
The CEO’s uncharacteristic antagonism toward strikers may point to an M&A state of mind
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AI Music Isn’t New – Raymond Scott Invented It 60 Years Ago | PRO Insight
The famed composer and his Electronium give us clues to how to reconcile technological progress and human creativity
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Elon Musk’s Twitter May Be Well and Truly Zucked | PRO Insight
It’s hard to know which billionaire to root for in this fight, but Threads is a real and growing threat
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My Son Is Going to Film School – What’s the Point in an AI World? | PRO Insight
Computers already churn out facsimiles of movies, but human storytelling can’t be gamed via algorithms
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Forget the Headset: Apple’s Vision Pro Ushers in a New Era of Spatial Computing | PRO Insight
Tim Cook’s “next big thing” that costs $3,499 has an inherently limited market, but that’s not the point
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Keanu Reeves and BottleRock Show Us a Way Out of the Matrix | PRO Insight
Live music festivals show that shared, human experiences IRL still matter in an increasingly AI-driven and virtual world
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The Supreme Court Just Became Hollywood’s New BFF in Its AI Fight | PRO Insight
Narrowing the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement may become critical to protecting artists’ livelihoods as bots scrape their creative works
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Hollywood, Are You Team Human or Team AI? It’s Time to Choose | PRO Insight
Studios and writers: Decide now, before a chatbot generates the answer for you
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AI Should Be a Life-and-Death Issue for Hollywood Writers | PRO Insight
BuzzFeed provides a timely cautionary tale for creatives who don’t take the threat of computer-generated copy seriously
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From Fake Drake to a Fan Frenzy: AI Can Help – Not Just Hurt – the Music Business | PRO Insight
Trying to take down computer-generated tracks is a remix of a failed strategy from the Napster days
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