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271 Hollywood Urges Trump To Not Let AI Companies 'Exploit' Copyrighted Works

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/17/2025 23:30 EDT

Hollywood Urges Trump To Not Let AI Companies 'Exploit' Copyrighted Works

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Variety: More than 400 Hollywood creative leaders signed an open letter to the Trump White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, urging the administration to not roll back copyright protections at the behest of AI companies. The filmmakers, writers, actors, musicians and others -- which included Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Erivo, Cate Blanchett, Cord Jefferson, Paul McCartney, Ron Howard and Taika Waititi -- were submitting comments for the Trump ad

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