Screen and TV writers are also hurt by the fact we don’t hold our copyrights. The studios do, and they, for the moment, seem willing to play ball. I do think people will come to their when Gen AI aids the theft of plot points from one Bourne Identity movie into a rip off. Discovery is the rub.
That should’ve been “come to their senses.”
In the book world, no one owns plot point, only the individual expressions of them. What makes screen/TV different? And when a group works on a script, how would ownership be divvied up, line by line?
Structure and narrative are considered individual expression, and therefore are considered part of authorship. The only difference is that story by and written by are judged separately. Yes, there is collaboration in film/TV but the assigned author is the author; there is no line-by-line assigning.
So you could technically have a group of people all writing, but one person gets assigned authorship? So only one person gets the credit? That doesn’t seem any more right for those who write, but don’t get authorship/ownership, versus them writing now and the studio that pays them and has ownership.
That’s another subject and has nothing to do with AI exploitation. But if you are arguing that authors are being exploited more than writers for screen because they own their copyright, I would agree. And that’s why I have so much respect for Sarah Silverman
So…trying to conserve about the back end of something I don’t know about is arguing? Okay. Way to shut down someone trying to learn who wasn’t here to argue.
I didn’t think I was shutting down anything. Ask away.