The Motion Picture Association said that it had reached an agreement with TikTok owner ByteDance on a restriction framework over the use of studio intellectual property in AI video and images. The agreement follows a cease and desist letter that the trade association fired off in February to…

EXCLUSIVE: ByteDance’s new AI video generator Seedance 2.5 is successfully blocking efforts to steal Hollywood intellectual property after Seedance 2.0 prompted outrage among U.S. studios, research has revealed. The Chinese owner of TikTok appears to have made good on its promise to improve…

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Sony has fired off a cease and desist letter to ByteDance — the fifth major Hollywood player to do so in the past week despite the giant Chinese conglomerate insisting publicly that it respects intellectual property rights and is "taking steps" to do better. ByteDance unveiled the latest version…

Zachary Levi is shocked at the sophistication of Seedance 2.0. The Shazam! star has been posting about the ByteDance AI model in recent days, sharing user-generated videos and exclaiming that he is “gobsmacked” at the technology. “Are. We. Paying. Attention. Yet??” he asked when re-posting…

Netflix “will not stand by and watch ByteDance treat our valued IP as free, public domain clip art,” the streamer told the TikTok owner in a short and stern cease-and-desist letter over Seedance 2.0 sent Tuesday night. Netflix wants AI-generated videos of the likes of its Stranger Things, KPop Demon H…

Superman, Batman and Game of Thrones owner Warner Bros Discovery joined Disney and Paramount in putting the copyright infringement gears to TikTok owners ByteDance over AI-generated videos of Darth Vader, the Marvel universe and Tom Cruise created by Seedance 2.0. WBD’s legal chief Wayne M…

TikTok-owner ByteDance has promised to improve “safeguards” on its Seedance 2.0 AI model after a full-throated backlash from Hollywood about copyright theft. In a statement shared with Deadline, ByteDance said it would work to prevent users from generating videos based on Hollywood intellectual…

Paramount Skydance has joined Disney as the latest Hollywood studio to slam ByteDance over AI models Seedance and Seedream that it says are ripping off intellectual property and must stop. "We insist that ByteDance immediately take all necessary steps to (i) prevent violations of our…

Amid a rising storm of angst over AI video, Disney fired off a cease and desist letter to China’s ByteDance for stocking its new Seedance 2.0 platform "with a pirated library of Disney’s copyrighted characters” as the platform treats Disney IP from Star Wars to Marvel to Family Guy as if it was "free…

The Hollywood backlash against Seedance 2.0 is growing. The Human Artistry Campaign, which counts the likes of SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America among its members, has joined the Motion Picture Association in condemning the AI model released by ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that…

Studios are calling on the Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance, to cease the use of copyrighted works in a new AI model, which has drawn attention for a Brad Pitt vs. Tom Cruise deepfake. Charles Rivkin, the chairman and CEO of the MPA, said in a statement, “In a single day, the Chinese AI…