@misc{lionsgaterunwaypartnership2024, title = {Runway Partners with Lionsgate in First-of-its-Kind AI Collaboration}, year = {2024}, publisher = {Runway}, url = {https://runwayml.com/news/runway-partners-with-lionsgate}, abstract = {In September 2024, Runway and Lionsgate announced the first known deal in which a major studio licensed its film catalogue to train a bespoke generative video model. The model is exclusive to Lionsgate filmmakers for internal creative use and is not available to the public. The partnership established a structural template for IP-licensed AI training that subsequent studio deals have referenced, shifting the training-data debate from scraping disputes toward consent-based industrial models. The deal is directly relevant to teaching production ethics, IP management and the emerging economics of studio AI integration.}, keywords = {generative-ai, video-generation, training-data, ip-and-copyright, production-practice}, note = {AI \& Animation Education Knowledge Base} }