Representatives from the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG), Australian Directors' Guild (ADG), and Screen Producers Australia (SPA) emphasised the importance of an industry-led approach to navigating AI's impact on creative jobs at last week's Regional to Global Summit, noting the limitations of government intervention regarding the technology.
Two weeks before the government released its recommendations on adopting artificial intelligence (AI), representatives and thought leaders from various factions of Australia's creative industries were literally offered a seat at the table to discuss the sector's approach to technology.
With Australia’s notoriously strict defamation laws undergoing a shake up in the past couple of
years and dramatic retellings of recent history becoming increasingly popular, has the state of play
for creatives wanting to base projects on real events and people changed? IF weighs up the views of producers and legal experts to find out.