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Lionsgate and Runway have entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership centered around the creation and training of a new AI model, customized on Lionsgate’s proprietary catalog. If you interested in learning more about licensing your premium video content to AI companies for training purposes, please do not hesitate to reach out. Calliope Networks

Promising blog post from Amjad Hanif at YouTube last week reiterating that scraping by AI companies (or anyone) is against their Terms of Service. And they foreshadow some new tools that will give content creators more control in the future. Seems very positive. Excited to learn more. "When it comes to other parties, such as those who may try to scrape YouTube content, we’ve been clear that accessing creator content in unauthorized ways violates our?Terms of Service?and undermines the value we provide back to creators in exchange for their work. We’ll continue to employ measures to ensure that third parties respect these terms, including ongoing investments in the systems that detect and prevent unauthorized access, up to and including blocking access from those who scrape. . . . [W]e're developing new ways to give YouTube creators choice over how third parties might use their content on our platform. We'll have more to share later this year." Calliope Networks Dataset Providers Alliance Alex Bestall Mark Milstein Ed Newton-Rex Max Einhorn Xenia Shevnina Han Seng Lim Jim Tosney Pablo Iacoviello Carlos Sanchez Brendan Gallagher Ali Hekmatpour James Golden Mark Turner Uday Ghare Keith Quinn Olivier Delfosse Bianca Serafini Shawn White Keith Kupferschmid Daniel Cooper Bill Rosenblatt Phil Sherrell Chad Rutkowski Fede Goldenberg https://lnkd.in/gcK6VHuQ

Great article from Kate Knibbs at WIRED about the Dataset Providers Alliance and our new white paper about ethical AI dataset licensing. Proud that Calliope Networks is one of the founding members of the DPA, helping to bring order to the chaos of AI data licensing. "The very existence of the DPA demonstrates that the AI Wild West days appear to be coming to an end." Alex Bestall Mark Milstein James Golden Ed Newton-Rex Bill Rosenblatt Mark Turner Uday Ghare Ali Hekmatpour Carlos Sanchez Max Einhorn Jim Tosney Xenia Shevnina Han Seng Lim Keith Kupferschmid Daniel Cooper Brendan Gallagher Pablo Iacoviello James (Jay) Wong

Calliope Networks is in the news!! Very informative article from Variety and Audrey Schomer. "While it’s likely to take time for the major studios to move on any AI licensing opportunity, some smaller-scale licensing deals for higher-quality film and TV content are quietly gearing up. Calliope Networks?has been aggregating content licenses to build a catalog of movies, TV episodes and photos, among other types of data, to be used as a high-quality datasets to train AI models. Through partnerships with content owners, its growing catalog has now reached over 17,000 hours of film and TV content from more than 10,000 titles . . . said Calliope Networks CEO and co-founder Dave Davis . . ." James Golden Mark Turner Ali Hekmatpour Uday Ghare Dataset Providers Alliance Fairly Trained Ed Newton-Rex Carlos Sanchez Max Einhorn Milady Flores Jim Tosney Han Seng Lim Xenia Shevnina Pablo Iacoviello Alex Bestall Keith Kupferschmid Copyright Alliance Mark Milstein Peter Csathy Thad McIlroy Radhika K Raman Mike Heath Bill Rosenblatt https://lnkd.in/gCaXJSXD

An excellent article from Bill Rosenblatt about the current state of licensing in AI. Making a case for engagement by content owners, the article notes that "courts and Congress will consider how easy it is for the AI companies to license content properly in determining whether licensing is required." The article provides a fairly comprehensive overview of licensing activity to date and offers some great context, including drawing a compelling analogy about the emergence of photocopiers in the 1970s. The article also provides a nice mention of my favorite start-up, Calliope Networks. News/Media Alliance, Dataset Providers Alliance, Alex Bestall, James Golden, Max Einhorn, Ali Hekmatpour, Carlos Sanchez, Jim Tosney, Mark Milstein, Mark Turner, Uday Ghare, Andrew Steinberg, Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Tracey Armstrong, Copyright Alliance, The Copyright Society, Daniel Cooper, Keith Kupferschmid, The Authors Guild, Thad McIlroy, Ed Newton-Rex, Fairly Trained, Mary Rasenberger, Theresa Weisenberger, Peter Csathy, Chad Rutkowski, Han Seng Lim, Mike Heath, Radhika K Raman, Michael Huntsman, Milady Flores https://lnkd.in/gHeK3-_x

For anyone interested in AI and content licensing, this podcast is "must listen" content. Nilay Patel from The Verge interviews Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic about their licensing deal with OpenAI and why they chose licensing instead of litigation. They discuss the framework of the deal and the philosophy behind it. Importantly, Thompson says one reason to do the deal is to help shape the future interaction between AI and journalism. He says, "AI is coming, it is coming quickly. We want to be part of whatever transition happens. The transition might be bad or the transition might be good. But we believe the odds of it being good for journalism . . . are higher if we participate." Thompson touches on concepts around one-time revenue vs recurring revenue and provides his odds that The New York Times is successful in their copyright infringement case against OpenAI. And he believes that the NYT's odds of success are enhanced precisely because companies like The Atlantic are engaging in licensing, proving to courts that there is a legitimate alternative to unauthorized scraping. (I have heard that from many smart copyright lawyers and agree with it.) News/Media Alliance, Copyright Alliance, The Copyright Society, The Authors Guild, Dataset Providers Alliance, Regan Smith, Keith Kupferschmid, Daniel Cooper, Thad McIlroy, Pascal Hetzscholdt, Fairly Trained, Ed Newton-Rex, Alex Bestall, Mark Milstein, Max Einhorn, Peter Csathy, Mary Rasenberger, Theresa Weisenberger, James Golden, Mark Turner, Michael Bommarito, Jillian B., Calliope Networks, Andrew Steinberg, Chad Rutkowski, Bill Rosenblatt https://lnkd.in/d42MzQ8e

An impressive new text-to-video AI service just dropped, called Kling, from Tik Tok competitor Kuaishou Technology. It can apparently generate two minute videos in 1080p at 30 frames per second. The examples on X/Twitter are impressive. At Calliope Networks, we are building a global audiovisual catalog licensable for AI model training, to support text-to-video development. https://lnkd.in/gH4DHWRn