What to do about (or perhaps, with?) generative AI has plagued every Hollywood labor union for more than a year now. IATSE ‘s solution just might be the best yet. For the international Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, generative AI will be covered union work performed by a human and no crew member can be forced to input a prompt that would replace another crew member.
Additionally, the tentative agreement calls for studios to commit to AI training and to protections against potential lawsuits over an IATSE worker’s use of AI. The full Memorandum of Agreement was released to IATSE members on Wednesday afternoon. It wasn’t hard to get .
As an attorney told IndieWire, IATSE’s deal is perhaps more detailed and comprehensive than the others — and it is a “really great result” for both employees and employers. “They definitely evolved,” Ivy Kagan Bierman, a partner at Loeb & Loeb and its entertainment labor group’s chair. “You went from DGA really not having much to WGA and SAG-AFTRA having significantly more.
You look at this now, these are really very extensive, very well thought through. They have a lot more detail. There’s a lot more here.
” We’ve come a long way from the flimsy and succinct language initially established in the DGA deal . Kagan Bierman believes the IATSE deal is more protective to its members and that it applies thoroughly to all different IATSE locals. Plus, this one is forward-looking enough to make the studios provide regul.
