ByteDance signs a copyright pact with Hollywood’s MPA to rein in its Seedance AI video tool
The TikTok owner has agreed a pact with the Motion Picture Association, the trade body for the major US studios, to tighten copyright protections on its AI image and video generators, ending, at least officially, a standoff that began when the studios accused the company of building a machine for wholesale infringement.
The agreement covers Seedance, ByteDance’s video-generation model, and Seedream, its image counterpart, the tools that sit behind AI features in TikTok, the CapCut editor and the Dreamina app.
ByteDance says newer versions of the models already carry stronger intellectual-property safeguards, though neither side has spelled out what those guardrails actually are, and the two have pledged to keep cooperating as the technology moves on.
The détente follows a genuinely bitter row. In February, after Seedance 2.0 appeared, the MPA fired off a cease-and-desist letter and did not mince words, calling the tool an engine of “systemic infringement”...
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