The Wild West of copyrighted characters in AI may be coming to an end. There has been legal wrangling over the role of copyright in the AI era, but the mother of all legal teams may now be gearing up ...

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Robert Downey Jr is anti-AI, but it will play a big part in promoting 'Doomsday' (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney) Robert Downey Jr. rocked Hollywood over a year ago, when he announced ...

Disney sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist for using its characters on Seedance. When OpenAI's Sora did it, however, Disney ...

As part of the Walt Disney Company's $1 billion investment in ChatGPT parent OpenAI, the entertainment giant will let you use Mickey Mouse and other Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters in ...

Google’s decision to pull a wave of AI generated Disney character videos after a legal threat from the entertainment giant has become a defining clash over who controls the next era of synthetic media ...

Disney has announced a three-year, $1 billion partnership with OpenAI, becoming the first major Hollywood studio to formally integrate its intellectual property with a leading generative AI platform.

The Writers Guild of America said Disney‘s huge licensing deal with OpenAI appears to “sanction” the AI company’s “theft of our work.” “Disney’s announcement with OpenAI appears to sanction its theft ...

Google's AI tools, including Gemini and the Nano Banana image generator, will no longer create content based on prompts that reference (or, in some cases, are similar to) Disney characters. As first ...