"Seedance's ability to generate unauthorized video content poses a direct threat to the American creative community, underscored by claims from one Seedance creator that it only cost nine cents to replicate the most expensive shot in the 2025 film F1. By releasing Seedance 2.0 without any effort to obtain licenses for either training materials or outputs, ByteDance has shown its willingness to violate U.S. federal law codifying intellectual property protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution."
"Those videos, involving recognizable characters and scenes from incredibly popular entertainment franchises like Stranger Things, Marvel and DC Comics, 'rack[ed] up millions of views and celebrating openly and enthusiastically, the theft of American creative work,' according to the Senators."
Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch sent a letter to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo demanding immediate shutdown of Seedance 2.0, a video generation platform enabling widespread copyright infringement. Within 24 hours of launch on February 12, the platform generated unauthorized videos featuring characters and scenes from major franchises like Stranger Things, Marvel, and DC Comics, accumulating millions of views. Seedance users demonstrated the platform's capacity to replicate expensive film shots for minimal cost, exemplified by replicating an F1 film shot for nine cents. ByteDance released the platform without obtaining licenses for training materials or outputs, violating U.S. intellectual property law. The Motion Pictures Association and other creative industry stakeholders have similarly condemned the platform's unauthorized content generation.
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