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“This is such a huge honour for me,” said Thorne, also known for his work on ‘His Dark Materials’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.’ Source: Jack Thorne Elected President of Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit from authors, who accused the Amazon-backed company of illegally downloading and copying their books to teach its AI system, in among the first deals reached by creators over novel legal issues … Continued
Industry reps discussed the challenges for the regulation of the tech at the CineLink industry strand of the Sarajevo Film Fest: “Everybody’s using AI, and I’m wondering how much this AI super brain is giving directions on creativity.” Source: EU … Continued
Chaos has launched V-Ray for Blender, officially bringing its Emmy and Academy Award-winning, production-proven rendering technology to one of the world’s most widely used 3D creation tools. Artists working in animation, visual effects, archviz, game cinematics and beyond can now … Continued
The 12th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (to be held August 29 – August 31, 2025), organized as part of the Venice Production Bridge — the film industry market and networking hub of the Venice Film Festival — has … Continued
“We are looking afresh at the whole range of options,” said the government this week. Source: UK government says it is “looking afresh” at AI and copyright proposals for the creative sector | News | Screen