Peter Csathy
Founder and Chairman, Creative Media; author and AI / media legal expert
Peter Csathy is founder and chairman of Creative Media, the entertainment-and-tech advisory firm. A Harvard Law-trained entertainment attorney who has negotiated more than $3 billion in deals, he runs two of the most consistent independent voices on AI-and-media policy: the Fearless Media podcast and 'the brAIn' Substack. His sustained beat is platform/AI ethics, copyright fair-use, and synthetic-performer disclosure law.
Peter Csathy is the rare independent voice that combines a Harvard Law-trained entertainment-attorney background with three-billion-plus dollars of negotiated deal experience and a sustained writing-and-podcasting practice. The Creative Media chairmanship is the day-job — a media, entertainment, and technology-focused business development, M&A, and advisory firm — but his editorial output through the FEARLESS MEDIA podcast and ‘the brAIn’ Substack is what makes him a tracked voice for our coverage.
The beat that has become his signature is AI-and-media policy. The ‘New York’s New AI Synthetic Performer Disclosure Law — Exposed!’ podcast is the canonical example: long-form analysis of the first state law in the country requiring disclosure when AI-generated ‘synthetic performers’ appear in advertising, walked through with an attorney’s eye for the operative language. He extends the same lens to copyright fair-use questions in generative AI (his ‘Market Substitution: Generative AI’s Fair Use Fail’ framing), to content-licensing economics (his recurring CES AI Media Masterclass series on pricing models and copyright), and to platform ethics — including a sustained critique of major platform partnerships and consolidation moves.
He sits in the press’s Rolodex on AI-and-media questions for a reason: the Wall Street Journal, Variety, Forbes, The Hollywood Reporter, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Digiday, Deadline, Billboard, CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC, and Financial Times have all quoted him. We cite him in the same posture — as the named legal-voice anchor on synthetic-performer disclosure, AI-IP licensing, and platform-ethics stories that hit our slate.