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How to Survive Artificial Intelligence in Hollywood: The Working Professional's Guide to the New Rules of Film, Television, and Streaming
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- AI In Law
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- May 12, 2026
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- 1391
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Summary
Right now, somewhere in Burbank, a producer just signed a forty-page AI vendor contract she didn't read. Eight months from today, that signature becomes a federal lawsuit, a SAG-AFTRA grievance, and a streamer threatening to drop her show. You already feel it. Every meeting now opens with the same question. Are we using AI on this? Nobody in the room agrees on what the answer means. Your line producer says one thing. Your studio counsel says another. Your distributor sends a delivery checklist asking for things your post house has never been asked to certify. Your E&O carrier just slipped a new exclusion into your policy. And the clock is running. Here is the truth nobody is telling you. The decisions you make this week on AI in your productions will determine whether your project gets distributed, whether your stars sue you, whether your union files a grievance, and whether the copyright in your finished work survives at the U.S. Copyright Office. This is not coming. This is here. And you are out of time to learn it the slow way. That is exactly why this book exists. Veteran trial lawyer Mitch Jackson hands you the working operating manual for AI in film, television, and streaming production right now, in 2026. Twenty chapters. Twenty distinct issues. Plain English. No law review. Built for working pros — producers, directors, showrunners, studio executives, actors, writers, editors, agents, managers, and the lawyers who back them up. Inside, you will get straight answers on: Copyright in the AI era — what registers, what gets carved out, and the human-authorship test that determines who actually owns your final cut Disney v. Midjourney, UMG v. Anthropic, and the Bartz precedent — how training-data lawsuits flow downstream into your project Digital replicas and vo…