{"id":2283800,"date":"2026-02-16T08:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2283800"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:56:21","slug":"bytedance-to-halt-seedance-2-0s-ai-rip-offs-after-legal-threats-from-disney-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bytedance-to-halt-seedance-2-0s-ai-rip-offs-after-legal-threats-from-disney-paramount\/","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance To Halt Seedance 2.0\u2019s AI Rip-Offs After Legal Threats From Disney & Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TikTok<\/a>-owner ByteDance<\/a> has promised to improve \u201csafeguards\u201d on its Seedance 2.0<\/a> AI model after a full-throated backlash from Hollywood about copyright theft.<\/p>\n

In a statement shared with BBC News<\/a>, ByteDance said it would work to prevent users from generating videos based on Hollywood intellectual property. Deadline has contacted ByteDance for comment.<\/p>\n

ByteDance\u2019s statement follows the Chinese tech giant receiving cease and desist letters from Disney and Paramount<\/a>, calling for an immediate halt to IP plundering.<\/p>\n

Disney accused ByteDance of stocking its Seedance 2.0 \u201cwith a pirated library of Disney\u2019s copyrighted characters.\u201d Paramount said the AI model had produced \u201cvivid depictions of Paramount\u2019s famous and iconic franchises and characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

ByteDance told BBC News that the company \u201crespects intellectual property rights and we have heard the concerns regarding Seedance 2.0.\u201d It continued: \u201cWe are taking steps to strengthen current safeguards as we work to prevent the unauthorised use of intellectual property and likeness by users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TikTok-owner ByteDance has promised to improve \u201csafeguards\u201d on its Seedance 2.0 AI model after a full-throated backlash from Hollywood about copyright theft. In a statement shared with BBC News, ByteDance said it would work to prevent users from generating videos based on Hollywood intellectual property. Deadline has contacted ByteDance for comment. ByteDance\u2019s statement follows the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2283801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2283800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ByteDance-To-Halt-Seedance-20s-AI-Rip-Offs-After-Legal-Threats.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283802,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283800\/revisions\/2283802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2283801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}