Peter Csathy is a WrapPRO contributor writing about the intersection between tech and entertainment/media. He’s chairman of Creative Media, a boutique media, entertainment and tech business advisory and legal services firm. His monthly “Fearless Media” newsletter covers the future of entertainment, media and tech; and his weekly “AI & NFT Legal Update” newsletter covers the AI and Web3/NFT ecosystems. You can also listen to his “Fearless Media” podcast and follow him on Twitter @pcsathy.
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X Marks the Spot for Elon Musk’s Race to the Bottom | PRO Insight
After he eviscerated Twitter, why would we give our financial information to the ruthless entrepreneur’s new super app?
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No More Mr. Nice Guy: Bob Iger May Just Want to Sell Disney and Be Done
The CEO’s uncharacteristic antagonism toward strikers may point to an M&A state of mind
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AI Music Isn’t New – Raymond Scott Invented It 60 Years Ago | PRO Insight
The famed composer and his Electronium give us clues to how to reconcile technological progress and human creativity
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Elon Musk’s Twitter May Be Well and Truly Zucked | PRO Insight
It’s hard to know which billionaire to root for in this fight, but Threads is a real and growing threat
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My Son Is Going to Film School – What’s the Point in an AI World? | PRO Insight
Computers already churn out facsimiles of movies, but human storytelling can’t be gamed via algorithms
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Forget the Headset: Apple’s Vision Pro Ushers in a New Era of Spatial Computing | PRO Insight
Tim Cook’s “next big thing” that costs $3,499 has an inherently limited market, but that’s not the point
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Keanu Reeves and BottleRock Show Us a Way Out of the Matrix | PRO Insight
Live music festivals show that shared, human experiences IRL still matter in an increasingly AI-driven and virtual world
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The Supreme Court Just Became Hollywood’s New BFF in Its AI Fight | PRO Insight
Narrowing the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement may become critical to protecting artists’ livelihoods as bots scrape their creative works
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Hollywood, Are You Team Human or Team AI? It’s Time to Choose | PRO Insight
Studios and writers: Decide now, before a chatbot generates the answer for you
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AI Should Be a Life-and-Death Issue for Hollywood Writers | PRO Insight
BuzzFeed provides a timely cautionary tale for creatives who don’t take the threat of computer-generated copy seriously
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From Fake Drake to a Fan Frenzy: AI Can Help – Not Just Hurt – the Music Business | PRO Insight
Trying to take down computer-generated tracks is a remix of a failed strategy from the Napster days
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Want to Fight AI? Use Fans – and Supercharge Them With Web3 | PRO Insight
Computer code that seeks to replicate human creativity can’t generate genuine connection
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No One’s to Blame for ChatGPT’s Made-Up ‘Facts’ About ’80s Synth-Pop Icon Howard Jones | PRO Insight
No human, that is — maybe the generative-AI chatbot should be benched, as critics like Elon Musk suggest
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Faced With the AI Revolution, the Entertainment Industry Can’t Pull a Napster | PRO Insight
Lawsuits won’t stop change from coming, so it’s better to learn everything we can about new technology
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Web3 Done Right: Token-Gated Access May Be the Ticket for Hollywood | PRO Insight
Keep it simple, give fans something new and memorable and don’t confuse them with talk about NFTs, crypto wallets and blockchain
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