Lawsuits or billion-dollar deals: How Disney picks its AI copyright battles

Disney sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist for using its characters on Seedance. When OpenAI's Sora did it, however, Disney ...
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Disney just made AI history — $1B OpenAI deal brings 200+ characters to Sora

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one of the boldest Hollywood-tech mashups we’ve seen yet, Disney is officially joining forces with OpenAI — and the deal is ...

Disney Fans Furious New Chief Creative Officer Plans to Prioritize AI in Movie Production

Disney fans are outraged (though perhaps not too surprised) the company’s new chief creative officer, Dana Walden, plans to ...

Disney accuses ByteDance of 'virtual smash-and-grab' when using copyrighted works to train its AI

Disney is going after another generative AI tool, accusing ByteDance and its recently released Seedance 2.0 of using its ...
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Disney bets big on AI, but not everyone sees a winner

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Many ‘artists, animators ...

Disney just forced Google to stop generating AI images of its characters — and fans are hitting a wall

Gemini and Nano Banana are now saying no to Disney character prompts ...

The New Hollywood Reality: Disney’s Billion-Dollar OpenAI Bet

In December 2025, OpenAI announced a $1 billion landmark deal with Disney. including over 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, ...

Disney Hits ByteDance With Cease-and-Desist, Claiming Seedance AI Tool Is ‘Hijacking’ Trademarked Characters

Disney has sent ByteDance a cease and desist letter to ByteDance over their new Seedance 2.0 AI generative video tool.