Hollywood Has a “Monkey Selfie” Problem |
As the US Copyright Office determined in 2014, a photograph taken by a monkey cannot be copyrighted. Who, though, owns a film that was made by a computer program but based on a human-written prompt—or other creative works completed by nonhuman machines that draw upon human behavior and knowledge? Roth Cornet thoroughly investigates the issue in VF today, chatting with creatives, executives, and legal scholars all debating what “intellectual property” even means in the age of machine intelligence. The question really boils down to this: Are we the monkey, or is it the AI?
Elsewhere in HWD, Chris Murphy chats with Glee star Lea Michele and the other principals in Broadway’s revamped version of Chess; Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst open up to Rebecca Ford about their new film, Roofman; a raft of stars pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people”; and if you’re in Milan, you may be in luck: The Devil Wears Prada 2 is apparently looking for extras. |
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