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Netflix demands ByteDance stop Seedance AI from recreating its biggest hits, threatens immediate legal action
Netflix and major studios accuse ByteDance's AI tool Seedance 2.0 of unauthorized use of copyrighted characters and settings, demanding removal and safeguards within three days.
- On Tuesday, Netflix sent a strict cease-and-desist to ByteDance, threatening immediate litigation unless Seedance 2.0 ceases generative output, removes infringing content, provides an accounting, and revokes third-party access within three days.
- ByteDance released Seedance 2.0 last week, a substantial leap mixing video and audio from few prompts, reportedly recreating Netflix hits like Stranger Things finale, Squid Game sets, Bridgerton costumes, and KPop Demon Hunters designs.
- Social feeds were flooded with Seedance clips, including Tom Cruise versus Brad Pitt, while Netflix says ByteDance promoted Bridgerton‑style outputs via @BytePlusGlobal, prompting industry condemnation.
- ByteDance said on Monday it would strengthen protections but gave no details, and has until later this week to reply as Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery press for legal remedies.
- Studios lining up together signal potential shifts in how AI training and licenses are regulated, as Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney and Paramount warn this fight could prompt new rules.
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Netflix, Disney, Paramount, & More Are Threatening to Sue AI Companies Over Copyright Infringement
In an escalation within the entertainment industry’s ongoing fight with artificial intelligence technologies, several prominent studios have issued threats of legal action against Seedance, an AI video generation service developed by ByteDance. The accusations center on the unauthorized use of intellectual properties in creating AI-generated clips, prompting a wave of cease-and-desist demands and warnings of […] The post Netflix, Disney, Paramou…
Read Netflix's legal letter to ByteDance over a viral AI video tool it calls a 'high-speed piracy engine'
ByteDance's new AI-powered video tool has created clips resembling characters like Will Byers from Netflix's "Stranger Things."Courtesy of Netflix © 2025Netflix just sent a cease-and-desist letter to TikTok parent ByteDance about AI video tool Seedance.Disney and Netflix have urged ByteDance to keep their IP out of Seedance's videos and training data.Hollywood is staring down the threat of rapidly evolving AI tools.Netflix isn't amused by ByteDa…
Netflix raised the pressure against ByteDance and threatened immediate litigation if the alleged infringement of intellectual property related to its artificial intelligence model Seedance 2.0 does not cease.The streaming platform thus joined previous claims by companies such as Disney and a complaint filed by the Motion Picture Association (MPA), which requested the immediate cessation of the activity it considers to be an offender.Seedance 2.0…
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technewstube.com'We will not stand by and watch': Netflix, Disney, and Warner Bros. threaten legal action over Seedance 2.0 videos starring Marvel, DC, and Stranger Things characters
Furious Hollywood studios have criticized the use of their movies, shows, and characters in ByteDance's AI video generator.
Warner Bros Discovery Gets Personal With TikTok Owners Over AI “Blatant Infringement” Of Batman & Superman In Cease & Desist Salvo
Superman bosses Warner Bros Discovery have joined Disney & Paramount in putting the copyright infringement gears to TikTok owners ByteDance
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