TikTok Owner ByteDance Signs Motion Picture Association Deal
The pact sets copyright and likeness safeguards across ByteDance’s AI tools after Hollywood studios raised concerns over unauthorized training and generated videos.
- On Monday, the Motion Picture Association and ByteDance signed a Memorandum of Understanding to implement "strong guardrails" for AI video and image models protecting Hollywood intellectual property.
- The MPA sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance in February after Seedance 2.0 generated unauthorized videos featuring characters like "SpongeBob SquarePants" and scenes from "Stranger Things."
- ByteDance's generative tools, including Seedance and Seedream, are integrated into TikTok, CapCut, and Dreamina. Recent updates like Seedance 2.5 reflect "ByteDance's continued advances in IP protections."
- The voluntary pact functions as a truce rather than a licensing deal, meaning studios receive no payments for their catalogues under the agreement.
- Both parties pledged to continue collaborating on safeguards as technology evolves, positioning ByteDance as a template for the MPA's negotiations with other AI developers.
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Hollywood strikes copyright deal with ByteDance over AI tools
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has reached its first agreement with TikTok’s parent ByteDance, saying Monday that it had strengthened copyright protections for AI video and image tools. The tools had previously drawn legal threats from Hollywood studios over copyright concerns. MPA, which represents major studios including Disney, Netflix and Sony Pictures Entertainment, said it had engaged constructively with ByteDance over the past sever…
The agreement concerns ByteDance's "Seedance" video creation models and "Seedream" images. The post Hollywood agreement with China's ByteDance for copyright protection from AI appeared first on in.gr.
The Hollywood film industry, which has strongly opposed the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) video generation models, has reached an official agreement with an AI company for copyright protection for the first time. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPA) and ByteDance announced on the 17th (local time) that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to apply robust safeguards to AI video and image generation model…
MPA and ByteDance Reach AI Copyright Protection Deal
WASHINGTON—The Motion Picture Association and the Chinese tech giant ByteDance have reached Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on a shared framework to protect intellectual property on generative AI video and image models like Seedance and Seedream, which is offered by TikTok, the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, CapCut, Dreamina and others.ByteDance founded and is the owner of TikTok outside the U.S.; it currently owns 19.9% of the social media platfo…
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