{"id":1029592,"date":"2026-08-19T07:39:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029592"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:26:13","slug":"bytedance-signs-ai-copyright-pact-with-hollywood-trade-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/bytedance-signs-ai-copyright-pact-with-hollywood-trade-group\/","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance signs AI copyright pact with Hollywood trade group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association on Monday signed an agreement to strengthen copyright safeguards on the Chinese company&#8217;s AI video and image-generation models, \u200cmonths \u2060after the \u2060Hollywood trade group challenged its handling of intellectual property. <\/p>\n<p>The deal, which covers ByteDance&#8217;s Seedance video and Seedream image-generation models, follows a cease-and-desist letter the MPA sent in \u2060February over \u200cthese tools. <\/p>\n<p>Disney \u200band other \u200bstudios in February raised \u2060concerns the AI tools could generate \u200bcontent featuring copyrighted characters and \u200bcelebrity likenesses without authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association on Monday signed an agreement to strengthen copyright safeguards on the Chinese company&#8217;s AI video and image-generation models, \u200cmonths \u2060after the \u2060Hollywood trade group challenged its handling of intellectual property. The deal, which covers ByteDance&#8217;s Seedance video and Seedream image-generation models, follows a cease-and-desist letter the MPA sent in \u2060February over \u200cthese tools. Disney \u200band other \u200bstudios in February raised \u2060concerns the AI tools could generate \u200bcontent featuring copyrighted characters and \u200bcelebrity likenesses without authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029611,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029592\/revisions\/1029611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}