{"id":20439,"date":"2025-10-13T17:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/equity-threatens-mass-direct-action-over-use-of-actors-images-in-ai-content\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:37:16","slug":"equity-threatens-mass-direct-action-over-use-of-actors-images-in-ai-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/equity-threatens-mass-direct-action-over-use-of-actors-images-in-ai-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity threatens mass direct action over use of actors\u2019 images in AI content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union says growing numbers of its members have made complaints about infringements of copyright in AI material<\/p>\n<p>The performing arts union Equity has threatened mass direct action over tech and entertainment companies\u2019 use of its members\u2019 likenesses, images and voices in AI content without permission.<\/p>\n<p>The warning came as the union said growing numbers of its members had made complaints about infringements of their copyright and misuse of their personal data in AI material.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/13\/equity-threatens-mass-direct-action-over-use-of-actors-images-in-ai-content\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/76f351605d5413404fe43ac94d688bebc2d7e130\/0_0_1614_1291\/master\/1614.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9fd584299b7fa88bed7d29b1d14ebdf9\" title=\"Equity threatens mass direct action over use of actors\u2019 images in AI content\" \/>Union says growing numbers of its members have made complaints about infringements of copyright in AI material<br \/>\nThe performing arts union Equity has threatened mass direct action over tech and entertainment companies\u2019 use of its members\u2019 likenesses, images and voices in AI content without permission.<br \/>\nThe warning came as the union said growing numbers of its members had made complaints about infringements of their copyright and misuse of their personal data in AI material. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union says growing numbers of its members have made complaints about infringements of copyright in AI material The performing arts union Equity has threatened mass direct action over tech and entertainment companies\u2019 use of its members\u2019 likenesses, images and voices in AI content without permission. The warning came as the union said growing numbers of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/equity-threatens-mass-direct-action-over-use-of-actors-images-in-ai-content\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Equity threatens mass direct action over use of actors\u2019 images in AI content<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}