Disney sends cease-and-desist to ByteDance over AI-generated videos

Reuters
2026.02.16 04:26
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Disney has issued a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging unauthorized use of its characters in the Seedance 2.0 AI video generator. The letter claims that ByteDance used copyrighted characters from franchises like Star Wars and Marvel without permission. In response, ByteDance plans to enhance safeguards on Seedance to prevent further infringement. This follows similar actions by Paramount Skydance against ByteDance for intellectual property violations. Disney has previously taken action against Character.AI and recently signed a licensing deal with OpenAI for character use.