Digital Hollywood: The AI Summer Summit

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

4– 4:50 PM Eastern Time Zone

Session III:

AI & the Creative Community – Representing the Interest of Actors - Writers - Producers - Guild Members

While the Hollywood strikes last year may now be old news, the concerns of the Guild membership, the writers and actors are far from settled. After all, creative concerns cannot always be resolved through arbitration and legal settlement. The underlying issues of Artificial Intelligence, from Deep Fakes, Virtual Humans and the ultimate ability of the AI to reason, think and author creative works is far from settled fact. Who among us can say what the future might hold. For those of you who have tried AI or perhaps have even become “Expert” in AI application, you are aware of the problems it may present. AI can as easily violate copyright of everything from image to story to voice as it can enhance the creativity of the most sophisticated artist. This our world to explore.

Speakers:

Chris McGuire, Comedy Showrunner: Martha & Snoop, The Soup, Comedy Central Roasts

Schuyler (Sky) M. Moore, Partner, Greenberg Glusker
Dan Neely, Co-Founder and CEO of Vermillio

Oz Krakowski, Chief Business Development Officer, Deepdub

Tess Rafferty, TV Writer, Author, Columnist (The Soup, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party)

Catherine Clinch, Veteran TV Writer, Hunter, Jake & the Fat Man, Love Boat, Hart to Hart, Moderator

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Schuyler M. Moore ("Sky") is a partner in the corporate entertainment department of Greenberg Glusker, practicing entertainment, corporate, and tax law. Sky holds his undergraduate degree from UCLA (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude) and his law degree also from UCLA (first in class). He has been practicing in the entertainment industry since 1981, and he represents a broad spectrum of clients throughout the entertainment industry, including producers, sales agents, foreign distributors, and financiers. Sky has handled some of the largest financing transactions in Hollywood, including Reliance’s investment in DreamWorks, the Ratpac-Dune slate financing for Warner Brothers, the Hemisphere slate financing for Sony and Paramount, and the Hunan Group slate financing for Lionsgate. He is the author of several books, including The Biz: The Basic Business, Legal, and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry, a popular book in its 5th edition, Taxation of the Entertainment Industry, the leading treatise on that topic, and What They Don’t Teach You in Law School. He was an adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Law and Business School and an adjunct professor at the USC School of Law, and he is a frequent speaker and writer on a wide variety of entertainment topics. Sky has been named a "Power Lawyer" by the Hollywood Reporter; included in Variety's "Dealmakers Impact Report" and "Legal Impact Report" and named a leading lawyer in the area of Entertainment and Media: Transactional, recognized as one of the top 100 lawyers in California by the Daily Journal, and named one of the top three "Most Influential Lawyers" in media by the National Law Journal. In 2019, he was named a lifetime “Legal Legend” by The Hollywood Reporter.


Oz Krakowski CBDO, Deepdub: Oz Krakowski is leading Deepdub's business development and strategic sales and has overseen the localization of hundreds of hours of scripted and unscripted content into multiple languages using Deepdub's groundbreaking AI-powered localization platform. From dubbing theatricals, award-winning indie films, the first ever dubbed scripted drama on Hulu ("Vanda") to unscripted content like reality show "Hardcore Pawn" and docu-crime "Forensic Files", Oz has been fostering collaborations and partnerships with studios and content owners around the globe, he is also a member of the DEG Awards Planning Committee. Deepdub is the only AI dubbing company that is TPN Gold-shield and GDPR certified and has recently launched the Deepdub GO platform, enabling content owners and dubbing studios access to the most advanced AI dubbing platform and tools to maintain full control over the process. Oz is a serial entrepreneur and before joining Deepdub was co-founder of a startup in the healthcare market. He lives in Dallas Texas for the past 16 years where he completed his Executive MBA program at Southern Methodist University. 
 

Chris McGuire is a veteran comedy showrunner, writer and producer with 20+ years’ experience across traditional and digital platforms. Throughout his career, Chris has worked with both established and emerging talent to bring their comedic voices to diverse audiences. Chris has served as Executive Producer for several scripted & semi-scripted talk and sketch shows fronted by comedians, including “The Burn with Jeffrey Ross,” “Not Safe with Nikki Glaser,” and “Mind of Mencia.” On these projects, his experience included taking shows from pitch to pick-up and supervising creative, production, field teams, budget, digital and post.  He has written for seven of the Emmy Nominated Comedy Central Roast series and was the Head Writer for the highly rated roast of Justin Bieber. His work on the roasts has allowed him to produce some of the biggest names in entertainment. Chris helped launch two late night talk shows hosted by comedians: George Lopez (for TBS) and Arsenio Hall (for CBS Television Distribution). Later, he served as Executive Producer for the Emmy Nominated and critically acclaimed talk / cooking show Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party for VH-1. He was also part of the development team for NBC’s Musical Game Show “That’s My Jam.” Whether in the talk, comedy-variety, sketch, game or food spaces, Chris brings value as an experienced creative manager with an eye for fresh formats and skill with working with talent.


Tess has written on over 500 episodes of television including, The Soup, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party and @midnight. She’s written and developed scripts for studios including Warner Brothers and Endemol-Shine. Tess is the author of the Kat Kelly Mystery Series; the memoir Recipes for Disaster, and is a featured writer in Rage Baking. Her work has been seen in Dame and Ms. Magazine. Tess’s video Aftermath, shot in the days following the 2016 election has received over 50 million hits on Occupy Democrats. Her Substack, Recipes For Resistance (https://tessrafferty.substack.com/) offers an exceptional balance of wit and wisdom with a healthy dash of rage tossed in to spice things up.


Catherine Clinch, Veteran TV Writer, Hunter, Jake & the Fat Man, Love Boat, Hart to Hart: iOnce a stand-up regular at The Improv, The Comedy Store and The Playboy Club (where she was conspicuously overdressed) Catherine has written for some of television’s most popular network series including THE LOVE BOAT, HART TO HART, HUNTER, JAKE & THE FATMAN, KNIGHT RIDER, TRUE CONFESSIONS and TRANSFORMERS: RESCUE BOTS. In 2018, she created Stan Lee’s S.T.E.A.M. SQUAD for POW! Entertainment. Catherine has worked directly for a veritable who’s who of iconic television producers and executives, including Aaron Spelling, Fred Silverman, Alan Landsburg, Peter Roth, Kevin Reilly and Stephen J. Cannell, earning 26 produced credits in network television. She’s the former Associate Publisher of the print version of Creative Screenwriting Magazine and co-coordinator of the first five years of Screenwriting Expo. Looking for a new challenge, she expanded her scope into other forms of media such as marketing, technology, and mobile entertainment for which she has been awarded three technology patents. She’s also won five hackathons, including the AT&T Regionals two years in a row. Catherine wrote the story and created the art for a new graphic novel, A MILLENNIAL’S GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE, which she plans to release later this year. She dabbles in graphic design, teaches classes in Social Media Strategy and the Theory of Storytelling at local university campuses and has road-tripped through half the country. Currently, Catherine Chairs the WGAw Career Longevity Committee where she advocates for older writers to obtain equal access to the job market and equal opportunity for sustained professional growth. She is a frequent speaker at conferences in Nashville, Dallas, Orlando and Portland. Catherine is happily married with three sons.

Dan Neely, Co-Founder and CEO of Vermillio: With Vermillio, artists, actors, musicians, studios, and more can track and authenticate the use of their IP — including their likenesses — in generative AI content, enabling fair credit and compensation for their work and control of how it is used by others. Vermillio recently announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with talent agency WME to protect clients from IP theft and give them the opportunity to monetize their image and likeness by securely licensing their data. Alongside Sony and Legacy Recordings, Vermillio collaborated with The Orb and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd to develop a project where fans “remixed” their album and created original artwork. They also launched a Spider-Verse engine with Sony where fans created their own unique digital version of themselves in the animation style of the Spider-Verse artists. Vermillio’s Authenticated AI opens doors for creators to offer fans opportunities to safely engage with their IP in new and immersive ways. Before Vermillio, Dan Neely founded and served as the CEO of Networked Insights, a machine learning software company that was backed by Goldman Sachs and acquired in 2017. He has spent the better part of the last two decades building companies that use technology to disrupt the status quo, including Scient, a former internet-based consulting company, and Deloitte’s E-surance, the first online insurance company.



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