Disney hits Google with cease-and-desist claiming ‘massive’ copyright infringement
Disney hits Google with cease-and-desist claiming ‘massive’ copyright infringement
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Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google on Wednesday, alleging that the tech giant has infringed on its copyrights, Variety reports.
Disney is accusing the tech giant of copyright infringement on a “massive scale,” claiming it has used AI models and services to commercially distribute unauthorized images and videos, according to the letter seen by Variety.
“Google operates as a virtual vending machine, capable of reproducing, rendering, and distributing copies of Disney’s valuable library of copyrighted characters and other works on a mass scale,” the letter reads. “And compounding Google’s blatant infringement, many of the infringing images generated by Google’s AI Services are branded with Google’s Gemini logo, falsely implying that Google’s exploitation of Disney’s intellectual property is authorized and endorsed by Disney.”
The letter alleges that Google’s AI systems infringe characters from “Frozen,” “The Lion King,” “Moana,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Deadpool,” and more.” Google did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
The move comes the same day that Disney signed a $1 billion, three-year deal with OpenAI that will bring its iconic characters to the company’s Sora AI video generator.
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