ByteDance Signs AI Copyright Pact with Hollywood Trade Group
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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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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ussanews.comHollywood cuts first-ever AI copyright deal with TikTok’s ByteDance
The Motion Picture Association-ByteDance deal guarantees that new AI tech will respect Hollywood’s intellectual property rights, preventing users from using AI to make bootleg movies or knock-off actors.
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korean-vibe.com(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = The Hollywood film industry, which had strongly opposed the spread of artificial intelligence (AI) video generation models, [is] an AI company for the first time in history...
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 […] This story continues at The Next Web
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