{"id":2284249,"date":"2026-02-16T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2284249"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:59:17","slug":"bytedance-pledges-to-curb-ai-video-generator-tool-seedance-after-legal-threats-from-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bytedance-pledges-to-curb-ai-video-generator-tool-seedance-after-legal-threats-from-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance Pledges to Curb AI Video Generator Tool Seedance After Legal Threats From Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858083\/\">ByteDance<\/a>, the Chinese tech giant that owns <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0754135\/\">TikTok<\/a> outside the U.S., said it will \u201cstrengthen current safeguards\u201d on its AI video-generating tool Seedance, following threats of legal action from Disney and other Hollywood studios over the use of their intellectual property in short-form videos that are taking over social media.<\/p>\n<p>Seedance 2.0 has caused an earthquake in the West, after the latest iteration of the tool has seen the rapid creation and proliferation of hyper-realistic short-form videos featuring some of world\u2019s biggest movie and TV stars, as well as characters from Marvel, DC, Star Wars and other popular franchises.<\/p>\n<p>Such has been the spread of Seedance videos that Hollywood has been quick to fire back. On Friday, Disney sent a cease and desist letter to ByteDance over the infringement of its IP.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction from other major Hollywood organizations has been just as swift and vehement. The Motion Picture Association,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok outside the U.S., said it will \u201cstrengthen current safeguards\u201d on its AI video-generating tool Seedance, following threats of legal action from Disney and other Hollywood studios over the use of their intellectual property in short-form videos that are taking over social media. Seedance 2.0 has caused an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284250,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2284249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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-Pledges-to-Curb-AI-Video-Generator-Tool-Seedance-After.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284249","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=2284249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284251,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284249\/revisions\/2284251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}