Hollywood talent agency CAA says OpenAI's Sora poses risk to creators' rights (www.reuters.com)

Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which represents thousands of actors, directors, musicians and other creatives, warned that OpenAI’s new video-generation app Sora exposes artists to “significant risk” by enabling users to generate and share short AI videos that can be spun from copyrighted material. CAA framed control, permission and compensation as fundamental rights, urged safeguards against misuse that it says could harm creators beyond entertainment, and signaled it is coordinating with IP firms, guilds, unions and legislators to seek remedies. Disney has already opted out of having its material appear in the app. The dispute highlights core industry and technical tensions around AI-generated audiovisual content: Sora’s popularity underscores how quickly generative models can produce derivative works at scale, while OpenAI’s response — rolling out content-owner controls and promising to share revenue for permitted uses — shows one approach to rights management. Key implications for the AI/ML community include the need for robust provenance, opt-in/opt-out mechanisms, transparent compensation and enforceable policies to govern character and copyrighted content use; unresolved implementation details and legal frameworks will shape how platforms, creators and models interact going forward.