OpenAI’s recently announced plans to shutter its Sora video-generating app have also scuttled the company’s planned $1 billion licensing partnership with Disney, according to multiple press reports.

The horizon behind Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is no longer just a wall of trees and “Blue Sky” dreams. As of February 2026, the Magic Kingdom is officially a construction zone of historic ...

Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt tussle in hand-to-hand combat on a rubble-strewn rooftop; Donald Trump takes on kung-fu fighters in a bamboo grove; Kanye West dances through a Chinese imperial palace while ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance has committed to strengthening safeguards for its controversial AI video generation tool Seedance 2.0 following a barrage of cease-and-desist letters from major Hollywood ...

ByteDance faced legal threats over its AI video tool's alleged copyright violations. Hollywood studios accused ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 of widespread unauthorized use of content. The dispute ...

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, had responded to legal threats from Disney after Seedance, their AI-generation tool has produced clips of Star Wars and other Disney properties. Over the last year or ...

TikTok-owner ByteDance has promised to improve “safeguards” on its Seedance 2.0 AI model after a full-throated backlash from Hollywood about copyright theft. In a statement shared with Deadline, ...

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 ...

Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly become a tool for “blatant” copyright infringement. ByteDance, the Chinese company ...

Disney also sent a takedown demand to the Chinese internet company Paramount’s Miller, in the letter to ByteDance, wrote that “much of the content that the Seed Platforms produce contains vivid ...

When a company releases a new AI model, it’s become customary for it to make a splash by pissing off an intellectual property owner or some other entity speaking up on behalf of copyrights, preferably ...

ByteDance has officially launched Doubao 2.0, a next-generation AI family that promises GPT-level intelligence at a disruptive price point. However, the celebration was short-lived as Hollywood giants ...