Warner Bros. has become the latest studio to condemn ByteDance for allowing unauthorized use of its IP on its AI video generating platform Seedance 2.0, which has been used to create videos featuring DC superheroes like Superman and Batman as well as characters from “Game of Thrones” with the likenesses of actors from the HBO series.
“[T]he users are not the ones at the root cause of the infringement,” Wayne Smith, EVP of legal at Warner Bros., wrote in a letter to the Chinese company. “They are merely building on the foundation of infringement already laid by ByteDance as Seedance comes pre-loaded with Warner Bros. Discovery’s copyrighted characters. That was…
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