We are thrilled to say our WCOS.io website is live, and registration is now open.

Here's part 2 of this week's Better Offline - I walk you through how Jack Welch's destructive mindset and the dark hand of shareholder supremacy is behind everything strange and bad in tech in the last few years. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bet… Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Last year I called out Galway Film Fleadh for not crediting writers in their awards tweets. Credit where it’s due, this year every award mentions the writer. Thank you for listening & making that change this year. It matters so much to see writers credited. WGI

Many in the AI world underestimate the backlash against AI. It is serious & growing. AI developers need to understand the strength of feeling & really engage with people on this. A few examples: 1. A London cinema dropped AI-written film after backlash.

Do I see the good work of The Writers' Guild membership here? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

If you’re concerned about the impact of AI on screenwriters, listen to BBC World Service’s Cultural Frontline, on air now. Including an interview with me about why this is a big issue of concern for writers guilds worldwide bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Parece que la #WCOS2024 de Galway está siendo un éxito. Si ya te has registrado, enhorabuena. Si no, asegúrate de tener tu plaza confirmada antes de comprar los billetes. ☘️☘️☘️ 🇮🇪 #screenwriters #guionistas #Ireland IAWG FSE

RIAA response to statement of Suno & udio illegal copying lawsuit responses.

Have a listen to this wonderful radio doc featuring our eloquent Chair, Jennifer Davidson. Please keep the conversation going and share in your networks. #AI #ScreenwritersEverywhere #CreateDontScrape bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Positive steps by BAFTA to honour children's writing and the inclusion of named “story by” credits in the screenplay category.

Just released on BBC Sounds, the latest episode of The Cultural Frontline, "Write Off: Screenwriters Versus AI." Jennifer Davidson, Chair of @iawgs, explains why AI poses an existential threat to screenwriters. Have a listen! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

Government action to break up concentrated economic power is our favorite kind of news, and DOJ’s win against Google’s search #monopoly is historic.

Contemplating a world where screenwriters are adequately valued as creative partners this #LabourDay #LaborDayWeekend #wcos2024

A great quote from the New Yorker about “Why AI isn’t Going to Make Art”: “The programmer Simon Willison has described the training for large language models as “money laundering for copyrighted data…” That’s one to write down: money laundering for copyrighted data.

Today, we celebrate the hard work and dedication of workers. Thank you for all that you do! May all workers receive the recognition and fair compensation they deserve for their work. Wishing everyone a safe and happy Labour Day! #CDNscreenwriters #solidarity #labourday

Resistance to AI is booming. So the question I want to ask this Labor Day is: Where do we go from here? We’ve seen plenty of pundits telling us to get with it or technology will leave us behind; I say we ask how *we* want technology to work for *us*. bloodinthemachine.com/p/this-labor-d…

I've posted before about Roald Dahl's "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" which imagined (in the 1950s) a writing machine trained on the writing of successful authors by paying them to stop writing. For Labor Day, the final passage.

Write Off: Screenwriters Versus AI: Un documental de BBC World Service sobre la #IA, sus carencias y los riesgos para la profesión de #guionista y el público audiovisual. Jennifer Davidson, presidenta de IAWG y WGI, ofrece nuestra perspectiva. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

🔻Presented to the European Parliament today. Thank you to all involved in this. Look forward to more reactions from Brussels and individual EU states. #AI #Copyright

Writing is writing, whether it’s for animation or live-action. We’re fighting for a PBS contract that gives animation writers the union coverage they deserve and for AI protections, paid parental leave and higher streaming residuals for ALL PBS writers. #PBSWritersUnited #1u