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All about how generative AI is transforming the world of media and entertainment - hosted by leading expert Peter Csathy of Creative Media (creativemedia.biz).
"the brAIn" features Csathy's "insider" insights about the latest developments in generative AI and its impacts on media, entertainment, and the entire creative community. It also features interviews with leading artists, innovators, entrepreneurs, executives, and influencers. Each episode starts with Peter's humorous rundown of the latest key headlines in the world of AI, media and entertainment. The podcast is the companion to his newsletter "the brAIn" that reaches thousands of "movers and shakers" in the industry. You can find it at themediabrain.substack.com.
Peter is a renowned dealmaker, serial entrepreneur, business advisor, Harvard trained lawyer, writer, speaker, and overall creative force. He writes a weekly column about AI and the media industry in leading entertainment publication TheWrap. He has negotiated over $4 billion in deals, served as CEO and President of several pioneering media-tech companies that achieved successful exits, and as a senior dealmaker in major studios.
Peter has been a key driver and force for opening up entirely new markets, including on demand music streaming, online video platforms, and live social video streaming and chat. He is a believer that artists and creators sit at the center of the overall media, entertainment and tech universe. He also hosts the podcast series "The Story Behind the Song" on Consequence, where he interviews the most legendary artists of the past several decades about their most iconic songs. You can find that podcast at consequence.net/category/consequence-podcast-network/the-story-behind-the-song.
reach out to Peter at bizdev@creativemedia.biz.
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What happens when the top AI disruptor in the world of advertising, PJ Accetturo (aka PJ Ace, the “Viral AI Ad Madman”) — founder and CEO of leading AI creative studio and agency Genre AI — sits down to talk shop? You get a fascinating, blunt discussion of how AI is fundamentally transforming the world of big brand and Hollywood studio advertising and production. PJ and I discuss: How Genre AI broke out with its AI-hyper fueled ad for prediction market, Kalshi – an ad that was viewed tens of ...
What happens when Google’s head of entertainment content & platforms, Jon Zepp, sits down to talk shop? You get one of Big Tech’s leading AI “insiders” whose focus is to work with the creative community — and to overcome friction, and focus instead on unlocking new creative possibilities. I interview Jon about it all in this episode. He deeply respects Artists — is one of the sharpest minds I know — and is a true lover of the world of entertainment and content. Jon and I discuss: Google’s...
Creative Media's Peter Csathy and Andy Beach, former Microsoft CTO and Head of AI Strategy (Media & Entertainment), discuss: (1) Disney's $1 billion investment into OpenAI; (2) Apple's decision to partner with Google for Apple Intelligence; (3) Microsoft's new AI Publisher's Content Marketplace; (4) Matthew McConaughey's efforts to trademark himself for AI purposes (alright, alright, alright!); and (5) the true meaning (and ramifications) of creative "control" in an increasingly generativ...
In this debut episode 1 of the brAIn for 2026, Creative Media's Peter Csathy moderates an expert panel at CES 2026, featuring Rebecca Grossman-Cohen (The New York Times), Emi Wayner (formerly of Google AI), Dave Davis (AI content licensing firm Protege), renowned Artist/DJ BT, and Jason Henderson (IP/licensing expert). The panel discusses the latest developments in copyright and fair use; the latest AI content licensing deals (pricing, how they're structured); Disney's $1 billion deal with Op...
This episode discusses expert Peter Csathy's 5 predictions for AI, media and entertainment in 2026. It is based on Csathy's just published annual predictions, which you can find here via his "the brAIn" newsletter. NOTE: Peter has listened to this episode and believes it accurately represents his predictions and perspectives - and that it is an insightful discussion of those predictions. Sign up for the companion "the brAIn" newsletter via this link. Check out Peter and his firm Creativ...
Aussie tech expert Ricky Sutton interviews me in our "hot take" session about what Disney's new $1 billion deal with OpenAI means - and why Disney would license its most beloved and valuable characters for use in Sora. Check it out. Sign up for the companion "the brAIn" newsletter via this link. Check out Peter and his firm Creative Media Check out Peter's LinkedIn bio here. And send feedback to bizdev@creativemedia.biz.
In this special episode, Peter moderates a compelling Digital Hollywood virtual session focused on AI and the law (in the world of media and entertainment). It's called "Generative AI Law: Let's Get Real - Is Copyright a Right or Does it Have Temporary Legal Status?" Panelists include Karen Chesley (Senior Litigation Counsel at The New York Times), Avery Williams (Partner at McKool Smith), and Sky Moore (Partner at Greenberg Glusker LLP). It's an engaging, energetic deep and efficient discus...
In this special episode, Peter moderatea a panel of all-star "insiders" at Digital Hollywood's virtual event - in a session titled "The AI Royalty Marketplace: Licensing, Monetization & Revenue Share". It is a panel that discusses critical "insider" information not available elsewhere, including pricing for video used for AI training. Panelists include Rebecca Grossman-Cohen of The New York Times, Dave Davis of Protege, Howie Singer of New York University, and Mickey Maher of Vermillio. S...
This episode discusses Peter Csathy's latest musing about H.I. v. A.I. in the Arts and overall creative process -- with H.I. referring to Human Intelligence and the critical role of moment-in-time human emotion in the Artist's creative journey and resulting creative works (emotion that AI may be able to mimic, but never authentically capture). H.I. captures the Artist's emotional state of mind at the moment of creation -- whereas AI can only create based on past data (a historical record). Cs...
In this emergency podcast episode, Peter Csathy's co-hosts discuss the second ground-breaking AI copyright "fair use" decision in the past two days - this time Judge Vince Chhabria's in Kadrey v. Meta (from the same federal district court in Northern California in which Judge William Alsup sits, and who decided "fair use" in Bartz v. Anthropic). This podcast - generated using Google NotebookLM - is based on Csathy's detailed written analysis of both cases. Csathy underscores that at first blu...
Host Peter Csathy was recently interviewed by Robert Milazzo who is a professor, creator and founder of The Modern School of Film — an educational studio that has produced hundreds of masterclasses and educational events to explore the intersections of community, craft and culture. Our topic? “AI Entrepreneurship.” It’s a wide-ranging discussion that bounced from the practical and pragmatic (getting a job in the creative industries, and best positioning yourself) to the more philosophical (ho...
In this emergency episode, AI/media expert Peter Csathy's co-hosts discuss his just-posted written analysis of the first federal Judge's ruling on the critical issue of "fair use" in the context of generative AI. The decision was just handed down by Judge Alsup in the Northern District of California - and Csathy read and analyzed the full decision to see what it all means for both copyright owners and AI developers - and what comes next. Csathy generated this episode based on his article usin...
Last week, just in time for Cannes Lions 2025 — the most important advertising industry soiree of the year — New York’s legislature passed a groundbreaking new law that requires advertisers (and those who create those ads) to conspicuously disclose when an AI-generated “synthetic human” is used in ads. SAG-AFTRA called New York’s new law “a historic move marking a new era of transparency in artificial intelligence use in advertising … the first law in the country, and possibly in the world, t...
Last week, host Peter Csathy called for Hollywood studios to finally cast aside their silence and join the AI copyright fight - to loudly voice the creative community's concerns about AI developers using their copyrighted works without consent and compensation. And two days later, Disney and NBCUniversal finally did - they sued generative image AI company Midjourney. In this episode, Csathy's synthetic co-hosts discuss Csathy's most recent article, update and analysis of it all from his "the ...
Peter Csathy's synthetic co-hosts discuss Csathy's most recent article that discusses and analyzes where things stand in the current AI copyright infringement / "fair use" battle royale that is playing out between media and big tech companies in the federal courts. Csathy lays out the current state of affairs -- how federal courts have already decided (or soon will decide the "fair use" issue) -- and what that means for the world of generative AI as it meets the Arts. The discussion als...
This episode features a discussion of the great debate that is front and center now about OpenAI's new image generator, and how it's being widely used by users around the world to create anime art based on the "style" of famed anime artist Hayao MIyazaki. Many creative artists find what OpenAI is enabling to be infringing Miyazaki's works. But OpenAI and Silicon Valley in general pushes back by saying that an artist's "style" is not copyrightable. The discussion is based on Peter's most...
Host Peter Csathy's "synthetic" co-hosts discuss a sobering reality that faces all websites (not just media publishers and entertainment companies). For general purpose search, consumers increasingly turn to conversational AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude — as well as to more utilitarian AI search engines like Perplexity — instead of traditional Google and Bing search. This new AI search reality poses a "Code Red" for traditional search. But it ...
Host Peter Csathy recently was a guest on Ricky Sutton's "Future Media" podcast to discuss the recent rejection of "fair use" as a defense to AI training infringement by the federal judge in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence. Peter discusses all the relevant business and legal issues that arise in the context of generative AI scraping of copyrighted works without consent and compensation -- and calls for a "win win" licensing scheme to benefit all. It's a fascinating discussion with Ricky ...
In this episode, Peter Csathy's "synthetic" co-hosts discuss his most recent article that asks the provocative question, "Is 100% ethically sourced generative AI even possible?" Csathy's article lays out both sides of the argument - those who say it is possible (and must be done via content licensing), and those who simply believe it's too daunting and too hard (whom Csathy calls "Fair Use Accelerationists"). Csathy spoke with several leading experts to give their perspectives. It's an episod...
This discussion focuses on host Peter Csathy's latest feature article of the same name, which explores whether AI can ever create truly "original" and groundbreaking Art without humans controlling it as a tool to their own human creation. The discussion focuses on what uniquely makes human "creation" divine and unmatchable by AI content generation. Csathy argues that left to its own devices, AI generated works will always lead to the mediocre and mundane. The discussion also focuses on AI as ...
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