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• •ByteDance faces backlash from Hollywood studios like Disney and Paramount Skydance for its AI video tool Seedance 2.0, which allows users to create videos featuring copyrighted characters.
• •Studios sent cease-and-desist letters to ByteDance, accusing the company of widespread copyright infringement by allowing users to create AI videos featuring characters like Spider-Man, Darth Vader, and SpongeBob Square Pants.
• •ByteDance is now adding safeguards to prevent the unauthorized use of intellectual property and likenesses in Seedance 2.0, following legal threats and an investigation by Japan's AI minister.