"The US Patent and Trademark Office told employees Friday the agency will fully comply with President Donald Trump’s return-to-office order, but the directive won’t override collective bargaining agreements covering most of its employees."
Kyle Jahner, Bloomberg Law; Writers Guild AI Deal Pushes Studios Down New Copyright Path
"Movie and television studios will have to monitor their use of AI in the script-writing process or face copyright complications following the recent deal with the screenwriters’ union.
Provisions restricting—in some scenarios banning—use of AI in content fed to writers are embedded among other aspects of the collective bargaining agreement with Hollywood studios ratified by Writers Guild of America members Monday, less than two weeks after governing boards of the writers’ union ended the nearly five-month strike. The WGA also secured the right to bar the use of writers’ material to train AI models."
