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Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par

Paramount, Disney Send ByteDance Seedance AI Cease-and-Desist Letters
Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in "blatant infringement" of its intellectual property with its Seedance video and Seedream image generative AI platforms.

Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par

Paramount, Disney Send ByteDance Seedance AI Cease-and-Desist Letters
Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in "blatant infringement" of its intellectual property with its Seedance video and Seedream image generative AI platforms.

The MPA has sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, demanding it add safeguards against infringement on Seedance 2.0 and stop AI training on studios' IP (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/motion-picture-assoc…

Motion Picture Association Pushes ByteDance to Curb Seedance 2.0
The Motion Picture Association sent a letter to ByteDance on Friday urging it to delete studio IP from the Seedance training dataset.