Mike Ovitz has spent decades watching Hollywood lose billions to piracy. Now, armed with artificial intelligence and a few phone calls to the world’s biggest music executives, the legendary power player thinks he’s finally found a way to fight back.

“The entertainment and media business has been on the defensive on IP theft from day one,” Ovitz told me. “For the first time in history, we are on the offense not the defense.”

The Hollywood insider, 78, has been in the intellectual property trenches for decades. He co-founded Creative Artists Agency in 1975 and served as its chairman for 20 years. It was the era of super agents, and Ovitz was one of the most notable in the business, repping top talent like Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg. He left CAA in 1995 and joined Disne

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