MPA Demands ByteDance Remove Seedance Copyright Infringement

The Motion Picture Association on Friday sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance’s Culver City office demanding the company stop training its Seedance 2.0 AI platform on the studios’ movies and TV shows and implement safeguards to prevent users generating copyrighted material. The MPA cited examples including Shrek, SpongeBob, Darth Vader, Deadpool and Stranger Things, and gave ByteDance until Feb. 27 to outline corrective steps.