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

Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance after its new video generation model, Seedance 2.0, produced AI versions of its characters. It took a very different approach, however, when OpenAI's Sora did the same.

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• Disney's IP is under siege by the AI industry's 'ask for forgiveness, not permission' culture.
• Disney sent a cease-and-desist to ByteDance, saying it 'hijacked' its characters with Seedance 2.0.
• When OpenAI's Sora was used to create Disney characters...