ByteDance is strengthening safeguards on its AI video model after copyright infringement concerns

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, a powerful new video model, is drawing alarm in Hollywood after it churned out a slew of ...

Disney Hits ByteDance With Cease-and-Desist, Claiming Seedance AI Tool Is ‘Hijacking’ Trademarked Characters

Disney has sent ByteDance a cease and desist letter to ByteDance over their new Seedance 2.0 AI generative video tool.

ByteDance says it's going to make it harder for Seedance to make AI videos of copyrighted movie characters

ByteDance is facing scrutiny over Seedance 2.0, an AI video tool creating Hollywood star deepfakes and sparking copyright ...

ByteDance promises to tighten up its new AI video generator after viral Cruise vs. Pitt clip

ByteDance released Seedance 2.0 less than a week ago and enraged artists everywhere with a viral clip AI-generated clip of ...

ByteDance vows stricter IP control on AI

ByteDance will take steps to prevent the unauthorised use of intellectual property on its artificial intelligence (AI) video ...

Disney bites back to protect its characters

The US entertainment accuses ByteDance of stealing its intellectual property by training its new AI tool, Seedance, on Disney characters and images of real-life actors. ByteDance says it will address ...

Disney accuses ByteDance of 'virtual smash-and-grab' when using copyrighted works to train its AI

Disney is going after another generative AI tool, accusing ByteDance and its recently released Seedance 2.0 of using its copyrighted material without permission. As first reported on by Axios, the ...

Lawsuits or billion-dollar deals: How Disney picks its AI copyright battles

Disney sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist for using its characters on Seedance. When OpenAI's Sora did it, however, Disney ...