Therapy has signed sound designer Eddie Kim who comes over from 740 Sound Design & Mix, his roost for the past seven years. His work spans spots, features, shorts, documentaries, music videos and video games. Kim’s sonic stylings were notably featured in this year’s Super Bowl spots “A Dream Car. For Real Life” for Kia out of David&Goliath and the classic cartoon character-infused “Everyone” for Metlife out of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.
Kim has also lent his audio acumen to feature films including 8 Mile, Riding Giants, Dogtown and Z Boys, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and top video game titles including “Prince of Persia: Warrior Within” and “Enter the Matrix.”
While earning a BFA in Film from San Francisco-based Academy of Art University, Kim developed his audio style by immersing himself in Bay Area culture as a highly sought-after D.J. After a year working on projects with local Outpost Studios, he headed south to Los Angeles where he spent the next five years as a sound designer at Danetracks, Inc., before landing at 740 Sound Design.
Kim’s work over the years has garnered assorted awards at such competitions as Cannes, the AICP Show, D&ADs and the Clios. On the web, he has worked on an educational animated series that teaches the ABC’s of literacy to children around the world. Kim also recently contributed to a Los Angeles MOCA installation for a project created by C.R. Stacyk.
Led by founders Joe DiSanto, John Ramsey, Wren Waters and Doobie White, Therapy offers talent and resources spanning creative editorial, sound, design and postproduction.
AI-Assisted Works Can Get Copyright With Enough Human Creativity, According To U.S. Copyright Office
Artists can copyright works they made with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the U.S. Copyright Office that could further clear the way for the use of AI tools in Hollywood, the music industry and other creative fields.
The nation's copyright office, which sits in the Library of Congress and is not part of the executive branch, receives about half a million copyright applications per year covering millions of individual works. It has increasingly been asked to register works that are AI-generated.
And while many of those decisions are made on a case-by-case basis, the report issued Wednesday clarifies the office's approach as one based on what the top U.S. copyright official describes as the "centrality of human creativity" in authoring a work that warrants copyright protections.
"Where that creativity is expressed through the use of AI systems, it continues to enjoy protection," said a statement from Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, who directs the office.
An AI-assisted work could be copyrightable if an artist's handiwork is perceptible. A human adapting an AI-generated output with "creative arrangements or modifications" could also make it fall under copyright protections.
The report follows a review that began in 2023 and fielded opinions from thousands of people that ranged from AI developers, to actors and country singers.
It shows the copyright office will continue to reject copyright claims for fully machine-generated content. A person simply prompting a chatbot or AI image generator to produce a work doesn't give that person the ability to copyright that work, according to the report. "Extending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine ...... Read More