2026-09-28 19:33 UTC
But as vestigial as Hollywood's unique labor rights system may be, it was still enough to let thousands of freelancers beat back AI in their writers' rooms. Indeed, they even retained the right to use (or not use) AI if they chose, without any threat to their wages or headcount:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship/
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-09-28 19:33
This is something you can only get with labor rights, not copyright and certainly not property rights. If we limit ourselves to property rights, the only question we need to ask is "Who owns that writers' room?" And since the answer is "the studio" then whatever the studio says goes. 40/