ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has come under legal fire for allegedly allowing users of its platform to create videos featuring copyrighted characters. Disney and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have accused ByteDance of using copyrighted work to train its AI,

ByteDance has said it will work to strengthen safeguards on a new AI video-making tool, following copyright concerns and legal threats from Hollywood.

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) - ByteDance's new video-generating artificial intelligence model has already impressed the likes of Elon Musk and gone viral in China, where it has been compared to DeepSeek and won praise for its ability to produce cinematic storylines with just a few prompts.

ByteDance pledged tighter safeguards for Seedance after cease-and-desist letters from The Walt Disney Company and Paramount Global over alleged IP violations. Studios and unions warn that the AI video tool infringes copyrighted content and likeness rights.

ByteDance will take steps to prevent the unauthorised use of intellectual property on its artificial intelligence (AI) video generator Seedance 2.0, the Chinese technology firm says, following threats of legal action from US studios,

Rhett Reese, a scriptwriter known for his "Deadpool" films, said in an interview that the Cruise-Pitt video had sent a "cold shiver" up his spine

Disney and Paramount allege that Seedance 2.0 is distributing and reproducing their intellectual property.

(Refiles to add missing quote mark in headline) By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Feb 14 (Reuters) - China's ByteDance has rolled out its Doubao 2.0 model, an upgrade of the country's most widely used artificial-intelligence app,