The Trump administration's AI Action Plan. Source: The White House
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Trump’s AI Action Plan reactions: Pitting tech interests against entertainment rights

Reactions are coming in to yesterday’s announcement by U.S. president Donald Trump of an AI Action Plan by the federal government.

It’s clear that Hollywood intellectual property companies and others in the entertainment industry weren’t happy that the report didn’t call for updates to copyright law or other new protections for content that is ingested by AI models and regurgitated as AI creations. One social poster noted that Denmark just gave copyright protection to everyone’s likeness and face in digital form.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.