WME Group, Inc.

Selon ce qui est déclaré dans le document, toute utilisation de l'IA qui affecte les droits des talents et des créateurs doit prévoir une compensation et une autorisation adéquate.

Le document signé par la responsable juridique de WME Group, Neema Brown, vise à préserver le cadre juridique qui permet aux créateurs de décider si et selon quelles modalités leurs œuvres protégées peuvent être utilisées pour entraîner les systèmes d'IA.

WME souligne que la rémunération des artistes n'est pas seulement une théorie issue de litiges, mais reflète une réalité économique déjà en place.

Citant plus de vingt-quatre accords de licences signés entre la mi-2023 et la mi-2024, dont au moins vingt-huit prévoient le paiement pour l'accès aux données destinées à l'entraînement des modèles d'IA.

On top of that, Turkey Al-Sheikh is the chief boxing supporter in that neck of the woods, and according to him, his days are numbered.

Meanwhile, TKO Group Holdings is mostly owned by the WME Group, 64%, and WWE shareholders, 36%.

WME is in turn owned by Silverlake, a private equity company that spent $25 billion taking WME private in 2025.

It's clear based on what we've seen happen with the UFC and WWE in the last year or so that Silverlake is not in the losing money business.

How do you fire a client publicly, then make fun of him publicly, and then try to collect commission from him after you effed him over like that? And the insider here says that the action seemed like a breach of fiduciary duty.

WME Group Executive Chairman Ari Emanuel, he's out with a book now, by the way, that he's trying to promote everywhere, certainly appeared to be mocking Baldoni when he said at Africanomics Radio live events, there was a live event when Ari Emanuel was asked why he had fired Justin Baldoni.

And this was a live big event in front of an audience.

And it was supposed to to be aired on their podcast platform, but then guess what? This is their official explanation for why it wasn't.

Let's go younger," and it didn't work.

So he's the executive chairman of WME Group and the CEO and executive chairman of TKO Group Holdings.

A lot of letters in there.

TKO.

Let's go younger," and it didn't work.

So he's the executive chairman of WME Group and the CEO and executive chairman of TKO Group Holdings.

That's a lot of letters in there.

TKO, technical knockout.

Ari Emanuel is the CEO and Executive Chair of TKO.

He's also the Executive Chairman of the WME Group, and he is the founder and principal investor of Mari, M-A-R-I.

Since co-founding the Endeavor Talent Agency, in 1995, Ari Emanuel has repeatedly transformed the business of entertainment, merging the William Morris Agency and his Endeavor Agency to form the global enterprise WME.

acquiring IMG and UFC, and ultimately bringing WWE and UFC together to form the sports powerhouse TKO.

Our next guest is a power player at the center of related major deals and some controversial mergers.

We're joined now by Ari Emanuel, CEO of TKO Group Holdings, executive chairman of WME.

He is well known as one of Hollywood's most effective A-list agents.

Some say he is the best agent in the country.

But today, we'll get into something that those interviews haven't discussed, Ari's outrageous passion for golf.

So if you're not familiar, Ari Emanuel, he is the executive chairman of WME Group, executive chair and CEO of TKO, which is UFC, WWE, and IMG, the golf agency started by Mark McCormack on a handshake with Arnold Palmer.

So that's all to say that Ari is one of Hollywood's greatest super agents and businesspeople.

And of course, his persona and career and his own famous lines, they inspired the character Ari Gold in the hit series Entourage.

... four hours and keep on, and then do it four days in a row when your body's all screwed up, crazy.

Crazy.

You're working with some great ones through, uh, WME, Jordan Spieth, Charlie Hull.

Oh, oh.