Lisa Callif Discusses the Legalities of AI with Fstoppers

Lisa Callif was recently interviewed by Fstoppers’ Christopher Malcolm in the article titled “Deep Dive Into AI’s Legal Landscape With Top Hollywood Attorney Lisa A. Callif.” Throughout the conversation, they examine fundamental questions regarding the legalities of AI in the creative landscape, providing copyright holders and AI creators with sound guidance on usage and monetization. 

Issues have recently arisen regarding the use of copyrighted material to train large language AI models without the consent of the intellectual property holders. The law is still evolving and currently constitutes this practice as fair use. Lisa draws the comparison to using research from books and studies to create something new, explaining, “AI platforms can do the same thing, albeit in a much more exact manner and on a bigger scale, but it’s still gathering information to create something new.” They continue to explore the lack of rights surrounding creators and artists, with AI users permitted to replicate one’s signature style until litigation stops such usage.

Lisa and Christopher go on to explore copyright from the perspective of creators. She advises artists utilizing AI to prioritize “clean” platforms and use “platforms that are training their models on licensed materials and that have the documentation that they have the right to use everything that their model is trained on.” Lisa continues to warn artists that the output on characters, such as AI avatars, is not copyrightable. She cautions, “the idea that the output is not copyrightable is another natural disincentive for people to heavily rely on AI because they’re not going to be able to own the output.”

Read the full article in Fstoppers.