Netflix is the latest to join several studios condemning the Chinese company ByteDance over its Seedance 2.0 AI service for “enabling copyright infringement”.
Netflix sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that the Chinese company remove Netflix’s intellectual property – including the likes of “Stranger Things” and “Bridgerton” – from training datasets and to establish guardrails to prevent further infringement.
In a statement, Netflix’s director of litigation, Mindy LeMoine, says “Seedance acts as a high-speed piracy engine”.
It follows on from similar steps by Disney, Paramount and Warner…