WGA East Partners With Cloak To Shield Writers' Scripts From AI Scraping
The union provides free access to the software for members and a $10 option for non-members to prevent their work from being ingested by artificial intelligence models.
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The story so far
4 publishers have covered this in 4 articles since 20 Oct 2026. Variety published first, on 20 October at 16:00 UTC. The most recent article, from IndieWire, appeared on 20 October at 16:00 UTC.
Outlets reporting it: Variety (major outlet), The Hollywood Reporter (major outlet), Deadline, IndieWire.
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How it unfolded
Every source in the order it published.
- VarietyWGA East Strikes Deal With Cloak to Safeguard Screenplays from AI Scraping
- The Hollywood ReporterWriters Guild East Inks Deal With AI-Shielding Software Company
- DeadlineWGA East Is Trying To Help Writers Make Their Work “Unreadable” To AI Models
- IndieWireWGA East Moves to Block AI Models from Training on Members’ Work with New Software Partner Cloak: ‘Give Agency Back to Writers’
Sources
Every article we clustered into this story. Headlines link to the publisher.
- WGA East Strikes Deal With Cloak to Safeguard Screenplays from AI Scraping Variety ·
- Writers Guild East Inks Deal With AI-Shielding Software Company The Hollywood Reporter ·
- WGA East Is Trying To Help Writers Make Their Work “Unreadable” To AI Models Deadline
- WGA East Moves to Block AI Models from Training on Members’ Work with New Software Partner Cloak: ‘Give Agency Back to Writers’ IndieWire
In this story
- Writers Guild of America East
- Cloak