Entertainment · 14 February 2026
Hollywood studios tell ByteDance to stop Seedance 2.0
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The Motion Picture Association has ordered ByteDance to halt operations of its Seedance 2.0 generator immediately due to copyright concerns. Users created viral content that either envisioned *Friends* characters as otters or showed a fight scene between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. While ByteDance describes the tool as being in a limited testing phase, the BBC reports they have suspended uploads of real people to address infringement risks.
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