Overview
- Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch urged ByteDance to "immediately shut down" Seedance 2.0, calling it the company's most glaring infringement case to date.
- ByteDance said it respects intellectual property rights and is strengthening safeguards to curb unauthorized use of copyrighted material and likenesses.
- Multiple outlets reported that ByteDance has paused a planned global rollout of Seedance 2.0 after objections from major studios and streaming platforms.
- The Motion Picture Association and leading entertainment companies sent cease-and-desist letters following viral AI clips featuring celebrities and well-known franchises.
- Blackburn and Welch highlighted prior efforts like the TRAIN Act to let creators learn whether their works were used to train AI models.