Paramount Sky Dance (PSKY.US) issued a cease-and-desist infringement notice to ByteDance last Saturday (14th), stating that ByteDance's Seedance video generation and Seedream image generation artificial intelligence (AI) platforms are "blatant infringements" and that ByteDance has illegally plagiarized the intellectual property rights of its works, demanding that the alleged infringement be stopped immediately.
Disney (DIS.US) also issued an injunction against ByteDance last Friday (13th), accusing its AI platform of providing a library of pirated Disney copyrighted characters. The law firm Jenner & Block sent a letter on behalf of Disney, stating that ByteDance’s virtual robbery of Disney’s intellectual property is deliberate, widespread and completely unacceptable.
The company said these Bytedance models are stealing intellectual property and must stop.
“We insist that ByteDance immediately take all necessary measures to (i) prevent infringement of our intellectual property rights and ensure that ByteDance or seed platforms no longer use or create our content in the future; and (ii) remove all Paramount infringing content from ByteDance’s platforms and systems,” lawyers for David Ellison wrote in a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo.
“ByteDance promotes the seed platform as an image and video generation tool that facilitates users to create and distribute visual and audiovisual content based on searches and prompts. However, a large amount of content generated by the seed platform contains vivid depictions of Paramount Pictures’ famous and iconic IP and characters, which are protected by copyright law, trademark law and anti-unfair competition law. (and other related laws),” Parr wrote, citing works such as “South Park,” “SpongeBob SquarePants,” “Star Trek,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “The Godfather,” “Dora the Explorer” and “Avatar: The Last Airbender” as IPs and characters that have been repeatedly infringed in images and videos by torrent platforms.
Paramount also said, "It is clear that our company's intellectual property was used to train the models behind these tools. This training was done without our consent and in violation of the law. For the record, Paramount strongly opposes the use of our legally protected works in any of the above ways - either as training input for such models or as works created by these models - unless expressly authorized by us."
Amid growing anxiety about the Seed platform, particularly the videos generated by the newly launched Seedance 2.0, Disney issued a cease-and-desist letter on Friday, accusing it of infringing on intellectual property rights in works ranging from "Star Wars" to Marvel to "Family Guy."
Seedance is the latest artificial intelligence film generation system to spark dissatisfaction in Hollywood. The videos generated by ByteDance Seedance 2.0 have sparked heated discussions, with organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the Artists for Humanity Campaign denounced them.
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