Paramount’s letter, signed by Paramount Skydance’s head of intellectual property Gabriel Miller, demands that ByteDance immediately cease the infringement, Variety reported.
Miller added that “much of the content that the Seed Platforms produce contains vivid depictions of Paramount’s famous and iconic franchises and characters, which are protected under copyright law, trademark law, and the law of unfair competition (among other doctrines).”
She noted that Seedance also illegitimately uses properties including, South Park, SpongeBob SquarePants, Star Trek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Godfather, Dora the Explorer and Avatar: The Last Airbender, which she says have “all been repeatedly infringed by the Seed Platforms’ production and subsequent public performance and distribution of these images and videos.”
For its part, Disney has sent a letter of its own blasting ByteDance for misusing “a pirated library of Disney’s copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other Disney franchises, as if Disney’s coveted intellectual property were free public domain clip art.”
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