{"id":182228,"date":"2026-01-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/inside-equity-pacts-artificial-intelligence-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T04:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:30:19","slug":"inside-equity-pacts-artificial-intelligence-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/inside-equity-pacts-artificial-intelligence-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Equity &#038; Pact&#8217;s Artificial Intelligence Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/equity-pact-artificail-intelligence-negotiations-inside-llms-1236697046\/\">Inside Equity &#038; Pact&#8217;s Artificial Intelligence Negotiations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/equity-pact-artificail-intelligence-negotiations-inside-llms-1236697046\/\">https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/equity-pact-artificail-intelligence-negotiations-inside-llms-1236697046\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-28 04:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"deadline.com\">deadline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After a long standoff focused on digital scanning, Equity (actors union) and Pact (producer trade body) are resuming negotiations over artificial intelligence (AI) protections.<\/li>\n<li>Equity&#8217;s primary demand is financial compensation for actors whose likenesses are used to train AI models, with a requirement for backdated payments if content is sold to AI training companies.<\/li>\n<li>Pact has proposed AI terms aligned with international practices and notes that no UK production company is engaging in the practices Equity is seeking to regulate.<\/li>\n<li>Neither side is fully satisfied with the offer, and industrial action remains a possibility if a deal is not reached.<\/li>\n<li>Digital scanning was reportedly a distraction used to bring focus to Equity&#8217;s main demand of compensation for AI use.<\/li>\n<li>The negotiations have continued for nearly two years, alongside other key demands like pay, residuals, and stipulations from streamers.<\/li>\n<li>The next set of negotiations for AI protections will occur in the coming weeks, with the possibility of finding common ground still uncertain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Equity &#038; Pact&#8217;s Artificial Intelligence Negotiations https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/equity-pact-artificail-intelligence-negotiations-inside-llms-1236697046\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-28 04:00:00 Source Domain: deadline.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1657496669.jpg?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-182228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182230,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182228\/revisions\/182230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}