My Books
PRIVACY IN AMERICA: What Every American Needs to Know
Every day, ordinary Americans surrender intimate details of their lives without realizing it. Their phones broadcast where they sleep, worship, and seek medical care. Their cars report how they drive, where they stop, and whether they wear a seatbelt.
Their smart speakers and televisions record what they say and watch inside their own homes. Data brokers package these details into dossiers and sell them to advertisers, insurers, scammers, and even government agencies that would otherwise need a warrant to obtain the same information.
Artificial intelligence has made the crisis worse on every front. Deepfake voice clones now fool family members and bank representatives. AI-powered bots run autonomous romance and financial scams at industrial scale, and the very chatbots people confide in collect and train on those private conversations by default.
Facial recognition systems capture biometric data that can never be changed if stolen. Fitness trackers feed health information to companies that HIPAA was never designed to regulate. Period-tracking apps generate reproductive data that can carry legal consequences in post-Dobbs America, and DNA testing companies hold genetic secrets that expose entire bloodlines when corporate finances collapse.
Children face this surveillance from birth, tracked through games, apps, and school technology systems that harvest data long before a child can spell the word privacy.
All of this happens under a legal framework that is fundamentally broken. The United States remains the only major democracy without a comprehensive federal privacy law.
Privacy in America cuts through the complexity to show you how your privacy is being taken and it lays out precisely what you can do to fight back.
Available on Kindle, Audible, Paperback and Hardcopy.
HOW TO SURVIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HOLLYWOOD: The Working Professional’s Guide to the New Rules of Film, Television, and Streaming
Right now, somewhere in Burbank, a producer just signed a forty-page AI vendor contract she didn’t read. Eight months from today, that signature becomes a federal lawsuit, a SAG-AFTRA grievance, and a streamer threatening to drop her show.
You already feel it. Every meeting now opens with the same question. Are we using AI on this? Nobody in the room agrees on what the answer means. Your line producer says one thing. Your studio counsel says another. Your distributor sends a delivery checklist asking for things your post house has never been asked to certify. Your E&O carrier just slipped a new exclusion into your policy. And the clock is running.
Here is the truth nobody is telling you.
The decisions you make this week on AI in your productions will determine whether your project gets distributed, whether your stars sue you, whether your union files a grievance, and whether the copyright in your finished work survives at the U.S. Copyright Office. This is not coming. This is here.
And you are out of time to learn it the slow way.
That is exactly why this book exists.
Veteran trial lawyer Mitch Jackson hands you the working operating manual for AI in film, television, and streaming production right now, in 2026. Twenty chapters. Twenty distinct issues. Plain English. No law review. Built for working pros — producers, directors, showrunners, studio executives, actors, writers, editors, agents, managers, and the lawyers who back them up.
Inside, you will get straight answers on:
Copyright in the AI era — what registers, what gets carved out, and the human-authorship test that determines who actually owns your final cut
Disney v. Midjourney, UMG v. Anthropic, and the Bartz precedent — how training-data lawsuits flow downstream into your project
Digital replicas and voice cloning — consent, compensation, and control under the SAG-AFTRA agreements and the ELVIS Act
Posthumous rights, deepfakes, and synthetic performers like Tilly Norwood — the new clearance reality
The 50-state patchwork, the NO FAKES Act, the EU AI Act, AB 853, and the December 2025 federal AI executive order
The 2026 WGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, and Animation Guild contracts — what is on the bargaining table and what it means for your set
De-aging, ADR cloning, and lip-sync alteration — when consent triggers and when it does not
AI riders for talent, vendors, and crew — the contract language that holds up in arbitration
Chain of title, copyright registration, and E&O insurance in the AI era — and the warranties you need before you wrap
AI in marketing — trailers, key art, chatbots, and the FTC penalties you did not know existed
Read it once, cover to cover. Then keep it on the shelf next to your call sheets.
Because the people who survive this decade in entertainment will not be the smartest ones in the room. They will be the ones who saw what was coming and prepared. The ones who built a vocabulary for it. The ones who hired the right counsel, structured the right deals, and signed the right riders before their projects shipped.
Whatever role you play. Whatever chair you sit in.
That is what you are doing right now, with this book in your hands.
Welcome to work.
Available on Kindle, Audible, Paperback and Hardcopy.
Leading With AI: Seven Steps to Transform Your Business and Empower Your People
95% of corporate AI projects are failing right now. Yours might be next. And it has nothing to do with the technology.
Let us say the thing nobody in your last meeting was brave enough to say out loud.
The AI isn’t the problem. The leadership is.
You’ve felt it. You sit in those meetings, you nod at the slide decks, and underneath it all there’s this quiet, gnawing feeling that something is off. Money is leaving the company. Projects stall. Your people are confused about what these tools are even for. Everyone senses the gap between the promise and the reality, and nobody has a map.
Here’s the truth that’s going to sting a little: AI does exactly what it’s designed to do. What it will never do is give your team direction. Build trust. Define purpose. Align frightened, uncertain people around a future worth chasing.
That’s not the machine’s job. That’s yours.
And right now, the ground is moving under your business faster than you can plan for it. AI capability is doubling every few months. The skills that made you valuable are becoming the starting line for everyone. The old playbook — tighten control, set more rules, measure more activity — is quietly destroying the very teams you’re trying to lead.
So stop.
In Leading With AI, lawyer, consultant and author Mitch Jackson teams up with strategist Garrett Jackson to hand you something almost nobody else is offering: not another tool roundup, not another trend report you’ll forget by Friday, a clear, seven-step leadership system for the exact moment you’re standing in.
Define the why. Build the right foundation. Create AI-native workflows. Empower your teams. Lead with transparency. Measure what actually matters. Adapt in real time.
Every chapter ends with three action steps you can put to work the same day. No theory. No hype. Just the moves that turn AI from a line-item cost into a genuine catalyst, and turn you into the clearest, calmest, most trusted person in the room.
Here’s what most leaders won’t admit: in a few years, this moment will be the line. On one side, the companies that fade because their leaders froze and hoped it would all settle down. On the other, the ones that flourished because someone had the courage to lead differently.
You’re holding the difference in your hands.
This is your wake-up call. The question was never whether AI is coming. The question is how you will lead when it does.
Get the book, apply these seven steps and action approaches, and go become the leader your people are already waiting for.
Available on Kindle, Audible, Paperback and Hardcopy.