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Video creator Ted Entertainment now alleges YouTube videos have not just 1 but 5 technological protection measures
Read more: Video creator Ted Entertainment now alleges YouTube videos have not just 1 but 5 technological protection measuresAfter Bytedance moved to dismiss video maker Ted Entertainment’s complaint, Ted filed a first amended complaint adding new allegations that YouTube has not just 1 but 5 different technological protection measures that Bytedance allegedly circumvented. The original complaint generally asserted: “YouTube deploys technological protection measures (“TPMs”) designed to control access to the underlying video files…
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Bytedance seeks dismissal of Ted Entertainment’s DMCA complaint
Read more: Bytedance seeks dismissal of Ted Entertainment’s DMCA complaintBytedance filed its motion to dismiss video creator Ted Entertainment’s DMCA anti-circumvention complaint. This is one of four DMCA lawsuits Ted Entertainment filed. The others are against Meta, Snap, and NVIDIA. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE MOTION TO DISMISS OF BYTEDANCE
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Hollywood studios roiled by Seedance AI video pitting Brad Pitt v. Tom Cruise
Read more: Hollywood studios roiled by Seedance AI video pitting Brad Pitt v. Tom CruiseSimilar to what happened when Midjourney released its new video generator that enabled users to create videos with Hollywood studios’ animated characters, the video generator Seedance, owned by Chinese-based Bytedance, has roiled Hollywood studios. The AI-generated video that caused the greatest uproar was one pitting Brad Pitt against Tom Cruise: Disney swiftly sent a cease-and-desist…
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Copyright AI epidemic: Lawsuits flood US courts as number grows to 72
Read more: Copyright AI epidemic: Lawsuits flood US courts as number grows to 72Ted Entertainment et al., creators of YouTube videos, added to the recent barrage of copyright lawsuits against AI companies. In the past few weeks, 5 new lawsuits have been filed. Today, in 2 different suits in the Northern District of California, Ted Entertainment sued Bytedance, parent to TikTok, and Meta. This is the 3rd lawsuit…