Warner Bros. blasted ByteDance for “blatant infringement” on its AI video service, accusing the company of facilitating user-generated knockoffs of copyrighted characters, Gene Maddaus of Variety reports. Warner Bros. legal counsel sent a letter to ByteDance, noting copyrighted characters such as Superman and Batman are “the lifeblood of the company” and that “ByteDance is now engaged in blatant infringement of the very same properties you spent many years protecting.” Warner Bros. is demanding ByteDance to cease training on its characters.
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