The Chinese company ByteDance, known for its short-form video app TikTok, recently released Seedance 2.0, allowing users to create realistic AI videos from simple text prompts. Users were quickly recreating lifelike scenes that included everything from influencer videos to Hollywood action sequences. However, it didn’t take Hollywood long to make the call to its legal teams about what was being posted online that featured its copyright-protected material. Disney sent a letter to ByteDance that accused it of pre-packaging its product with "a pirated library of Disney's copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other Disney franchises, as if Disney's coveted intellectual property were free public domain clip art."
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