FEARLESS MEDIA: The Future Of Entertainment, Media & Tech
Peter Csathy's podcast explores the future of entertainment, media and tech and features the entrepreneurs, executives, and creators leading the way - all with a healthy mix of mind, body and soul. Diverse stories, from diverse voices via Peter's expert analyses and exclusive interviews. Peter is an internationally recognized media, entertainment and tech expert and Chairman of Creative Media, a leading legal services and business advisory firm (creativemedia.biz). He is the author of several critically-acclaimed industry books and regular contributor to Forbes, Variety, TheWrap, Billboard, Consequence, TechCrunch and USA Today. Follow Peter on Twitter @pcsathy, reach out to him at bizdev@creativemedia.biz, and sign up to his "Fearless Media" newsletter (fearlessmedia.substack.com) and separate "AI & NFT Legal Update" newsletter (ainftlegalupdate.substack.com) - both on Substack.
Episodes
73 episodes
How The OpenAI Court Got It Wrong
In this episode, Peter Csathy's co-hosts discuss his new article titled, "Raw Deal: The OpenAI Court Got It Wrong - Raw Story Media's Lawsuit Was Wrongly Dismis...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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13:07
$1 Trillion for GenAI: So Where Are the Content Dollars?
In this episode, Peter Csathy's co-hosts discuss his article of the same title - including the key AI-related content licensing deals to date, and where things to be heading in the epic copyright infringement/"fair use" battles that increasingl...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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11:44
My Open Letter Response to Perplexity: A Discussion
Last week, host Peter Csathy wrote not once but twice about Perplexity in his "the brAIn" newsletter (here's article 2). And for good reason. He first...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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17:11
Perplexity Showcases 3 Paths to Generative AI Copyright Infringement
This episode gives a comprehensive overview of host Peter Csathy's deep dive article of the same name (link to article below). The discussion uses News Corp's new copyright infringement lawsuit and The New York Times' rece...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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12:29
Are Tech's Generative AI "Fair Use" Dominoes Starting to Fall?
Excellent discussion of host Peter Csathy's deep dive article titled, "Are Tech's Generative AI 'Fair Use' Dominoes Starting to Fall?" Based on Csathy's article (simply dropped into NotebookLM), Csathy's AI co-hosts discuss: (1) the...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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11:26
Newsom's Hollywood/Silicon Valley GenAI Balancing Act: How California's 17 New GenAI Laws Impact Media & Entertainment
In this episode, Peter Csathy hands over the podcast to his Google NotebookLM "synthetic" AI-generated co-hosts to discuss his latest article, "Newsom's Hollywood/Silicon Valley Balancing Act: California's 17 New GenAI Laws May Become the Natio...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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9:40
The Great AI Copyright Debate: "Fair Use" or Not? (As Voiced by Google's NotebookLM)
In this part 3 of his Google NotebookLM podcast series, host Peter Csathy enables his "synthetic" AI-generated guest hosts to discuss "the great AI copyright debate: fair use, or not?" Csathy generated this episode by simply uploading the text ...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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9:16
Google's NotebookLM AI Hosts Discuss Themselves: The Results Are Fascinating (& Scary Good)
In this Part 2 to host Peter Csathy's Google NotebookLM generated podcast series, NotebookLM's "synthetic" AI-generated co-hosts discuss themselves - i.e., what their AI-generated personas mean for creativity, art and society. The result is fas...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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7:40
Google's New NotebookLM: AI Generated Podcast Demo Featuring Creative Media
Google just launched NotebookLM, an amazing new content generating AI wunder-app that, in Google’s words, is designed to be “your personalized AI research assistant.” NotebookLM can do many things, but its audio podcast generating feature is wh...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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9:01
The Great AI Debate: Are We (Or Are We Not) In An AI Bubble? (Hosted by Streaming Media)
This week's episode features Creative Media's Peter Csathy participating in Streaming Media's recent "Great AI Debate" hosted and moderated by expert and media cartographer Evan Shapiro - and also featuring AI experts and entrepreneurs H. Schus...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:01:24
Interview: Ben Gottdiener, CEO of Narrativ (& His New SAG-AFTRA Deal)
As part of his continuing generative AI and media-focused "the brAIn" series, Creative Media's Peter Csathy interviews CEO Ben Gottdiener, CEO of Narrativ - the company that enables users to create digital voice replicas (what some call "digita...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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46:59
Interview: Shara Senderoff, CEO Jen Music AI (& Why They Are "Ethically Sourced")
Peter interviews Shara Senderoff, Founder and CEO of Jen Music AI. The two discuss how Jen Music's "ethically sourced" music ethos is fundamentally different than the ethos of Silicon Valley-backed generative AI music services Suno and Udio. Ne...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:06:53
Media Companies: To Litig-AI-te or License? How to Decide in Generative AI Cases (& The State of the Law)
This episode features host Peter Csathy's recent roundtable discussion from Digital Hollywood's "AI Summer Summit" about the state and status of copyright law and litigation in the world of generative AI (and whether unlicensed scraping is infr...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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54:12
EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft's CTO & Other Experts Discuss Where Generative AI Video Is Going
This week's episode features host Peter Csathy's exclusive roundtable discussion with many of the leading players, experts and voices in the world of generative AI and video (including Microsoft CTO Andy Beach). The roundtable for Digital Holly...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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58:39
25 Ways Media & Entertainment Use Generative AI Right Now
In this week's companion episode of Peter Csathy's "the brAIn" podcast, Peter discusses 25 significant ways that the media and entertainment industry is already using generative AI right now -...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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29:52
Is Generative AI "Training" on Unlicensed Copyrighted Works Infringement (or Fair Use)? How the Supreme Court Will Decide
In this special bonus episode of Peter Csathy's companion "the brAIn" podcast, Peter tackles the fundamental issue now facing Big Tech and Big Media -- whether generative AI "training" on unlicensed copyrighted works is infringing (or is, inste...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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17:40
Content as AI "Seeds" with Endless Creative Possibilities: Point/Counterpoint
In this week's episode of Peter Csathy's new companion generative AI focused podcast "the brAIn" (episode 3), Peter first discusses the concept -- promoted by Black Eyed Peas auteur will.i.am -- of the new generative AI era of artists as being ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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20:33
AI & NFT "Quick Takes" (for the week of 3/20/23)
Welcome to host Peter Csathy's AI & NFT "Quick Takes" episode, where Peter lays out the most critical business and legal developments of the past week in the worlds of generative AI and Web3/NFTs that impact the creative community, media, e...
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Episode 55
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7:25
Hollywood NFTs Done Right: Simon Fuller Releases Major Musical Film Exclusively on OP3N Web3 Chat "Super App"
In Peter's last episode, he discussed an example of what’s wrong in the NFT world from the creative community’s perspective - specifically, OpenSea’s prioritization of buyers and sellers over the Creators that built the value of its marketplace...
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Episode 54
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12:59
Silicon Valley Bank Post-Mortem (& What Investors & CEOs Should Do Now)
Welcome to Peter's special “urgent” edition of "Fearless Media." We’ve all heard the Silicon Valley Bank headlines. But how did Silicon Valley respond and what does it all really mean now that the Feds have guaranteed all deposits? What should ...
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Episode 53
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43:10
OpenSea Responds to the Creator Resale Royalty Uproar (aka NFTs Hit Rough Water for Creators on the OpenSea)
In this special episode, Peter explores leading NFT platform OpenSea's significant recent changes to its resale royalty policy that left many Creators feeling betrayed. Locked in ongoing resale royalties are perhaps THE single most important dr...
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Episode 52
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8:51
AI & NFT "Quick Takes" (for the week of 3/6/23)
Welcome to host Peter Csathy's first AI & NFT "Quick Takes" episode, where Peter lays out the most critical business and legal developments of the past week in the worlds of generative AI and Web3/NFTs that impact the creative community, me...
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Episode 51
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9:11
AI, Entertainment & the Creative Arts - The Real World Implications (A Round Table Discussion)
Welcome to my special 50th episode of my Fearless Media podcast - a special one indeed. I recently hosted an AI-focused round table with guests that included Grammy award-winning artist and musician Alex Ebert (Edward Sharpe), AI artist and dat...
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Episode 50
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1:02:03
NFTs: Update & Overview of Key Legal and Business Issues - Peter Csathy, Creative Media
In this special episode, Peter gives an update and overview of the key legal and business issues in the complex and ever-evolving world of NFTs. He also discusses how best to solve for the complexity of international roll-outs where each territ...
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Episode 49
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1:04:04
Blockchain & NFT Enabled Physical Collectibles - Interview with CEO Mike Bebel of OOD (The First Blockchain-Enabled Marketplace for Physical Collectibles)
When we think of NFTs, we think of virtual art, collectibles and communities enabled, authenticated and verified on the blockchain. But NFTs can be tied to physical, tangible goods as well via the blockchain - to easily verify ownership of, and...
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Episode 48
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37:58