--- title: Hollywood isn’t happy about the new Seedance 2.0 video... description: ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0, an AI video generator that creates 15-second videos from text prompts. Hollywood organizations including the Motion Picture... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hollywood-isn-t-happy-about-the-new-seedance-2-0-video-generator-6ofxkfvv7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hollywood isn’t happy about the new Seedance 2.0 video generator | daily.dev og:description: ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0, an AI video generator that creates 15-second videos from text prompts. Hollywood organizations including the Motion Picture... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hollywood-isn-t-happy-about-the-new-seedance-2-0-video-generator-6ofxkfvv7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6oFXKFVv7.png og:image:alt: Hollywood isn’t happy about the new Seedance 2.0 video generator og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hollywood isn’t happy about the new Seedance 2.0 video generator **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0, an AI video generator that creates 15-second videos from text prompts. Hollywood organizations including the Motion Picture Association, SAG-AFTRA, and major studios like Disney and Paramount are pushing back with cease-and-desist letters, claiming the tool enables widespread copyright infringement by reproducing copyrighted characters and IP without safeguards. The controversy mirrors similar issues with OpenAI's Sora, highlighting tensions between AI companies and content creators over intellectual property rights. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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