Paramount Skydance is the latest studio to send a defamation letter to ByteDance over its tools, Seedance and Seedream, for “flagrant infringement” of its intellectual property.
Gabriel Miller, the studio’s head of intellectual property, wrote the letter addressed to the Chinese internet giant’s CEO, Liang Rubo.
In the letter, he writes that “much of the content the Seed Platforms produce contains vivid depictions of Paramount’s famous and iconic franchises and characters, which are protected under copyright, trademark, and unfair competition laws (among other doctrines).”
Miller continues, “The content of the AI-generated images and videos produced by ByteDance’s platforms is often visually and audibly indistinguishable from Paramount’s copyrighted characters and stories.”
Ultimately, the studio’s president demands that “ByteDance immediately take all necessary steps to (i) prevent violations of our intellectual property rights by ensuring that our content is not used or created in the future by ByteDance or the Seed Platforms, and (ii) remove all infringing copies of Paramount’s content from ByteDance’s platforms and systems.”
Paramount is not the first studio to issue a cease and desist order after ByteDance’s AI tools set off alarm bells in Hollywood. Disney recently sent a similar note to the Chinese company.
