"the Walt Disney Company sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming the Chinese company developed its Seedance tool "with a pirated library of Disney's copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other Disney franchises, as if Disney's coveted intellectual property were free public domain clip art." The letter, which was obtained by Axios, included examples of Seedance videos featuring copyrighted Disney characters, including Spider-Man, Darth Vader, Peter Griffin and more."
"Even though ByteDance just released Seedance 2.0 on Thursday, it's already earned praise, but also indignation from Hollywood studios, when it comes to its AI-generating capabilities. With the strong early momentum, Seedance has already found itself in hot water with one of the largest media companies in the world. However, it's not the first time that Disney has threatened legal action against an AI company, since Character.AI received a cease-and-desist letter for the same offense in September."
Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging Seedance 2.0 used a pirated library of Disney characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other franchises. The letter included examples of Seedance videos featuring copyrighted characters such as Spider-Man, Darth Vader, and Peter Griffin. Seedance 2.0 earned early praise for its generative capabilities but drew indignation from Hollywood studios. Disney previously issued similar notices to Character.AI and accused Google of copyright infringement when training AI models. Disney maintains a three-year licensing agreement with OpenAI for image and video generation using Disney IP.
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