"First, the ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced on its website it was earning a $1 billion equity investment from Disney, as part of a three-year licensing agreement that would bring "more than 200 animated, masked and creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars" to the visual-generation tools Sora and ChatGPT Images. (Ironically, the Silicon Valley firm's Dall-E image generator, named in part after Disney's iconic postapocalyptic trash-cleaning robot, is not mentioned within the release.)"
"For one year, the deal will allow an exclusive window for those products' subscribers to prompt up "social videos" with these specific characters, including (but hardly limited to) Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Moana, the Black Panther, and Darth Vader. Notably, while their A.I. versions will also get some props (e.g., Vader's lightsaber), they will not be given the voices of their original actors (e.g., James Earl Jones' booming baritone)."
Disney provided a $1 billion equity investment to OpenAI tied to a three-year licensing agreement that adds over 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters to OpenAI's Sora and ChatGPT Images visual-generation tools. Subscribers to those products will have a one-year exclusive window to generate short social videos featuring those characters, and a selection of Sora videos will appear on Disney+. AI character versions will include some character props but will not use original actors' voices. ChatGPT will be deployed to Disney employees. The arrangement implements a move toward paid user-generated short-form content while raising questions about exclusivity, voice rights, and creative control.
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