Netflix and Wayne M. Smith Join Legal Battle Against ByteDance Over AI

Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery have escalated legal threats against ByteDance after the TikTok parent company allegedly used copyrighted characters to train its Seedance 2.0 artificial intelligence platform.The entertainment giants, including Disney and Paramount, issued cease-and-desist letters demanding the immediate removal of proprietary content like "Stranger Things" and Batman from the technology firm's training datasets.This collective industry action follows accusations from Wayne M. Smith and other executives that ByteDance is infringing on intellectual property to promote unauthorized derivative videos featuring trademarked narratives.