--- title: U.S. court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo' | daily.dev description: A federal court ruled that OpenAI must stop using the name "Cameo" for its Sora video generation feature after Cameo, the celebrity video message platform,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/u-s-court-bars-openai-from-using-cameo--hweakstlx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: U.S. court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo' | daily.dev og:description: A federal court ruled that OpenAI must stop using the name "Cameo" for its Sora video generation feature after Cameo, the celebrity video message platform,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/u-s-court-bars-openai-from-using-cameo--hweakstlx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HWeAksTLX.png og:image:alt: U.S. court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo' 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. # U.S. court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo' **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A federal court ruled that OpenAI must stop using the name "Cameo" for its Sora video generation feature after Cameo, the celebrity video message platform, successfully argued the name caused user confusion. OpenAI has renamed the feature to "Characters" following a temporary restraining order in November. This adds to OpenAI's growing list of intellectual property disputes, including trademark conflicts over "IO" and "Sora," plus ongoing copyright cases with artists and media organizations globally. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OpenAI learned the hard way that Cameo trademarked the word ‘cameo’](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-learned-the-hard-way-that-cameo-trademarked-the-word-cameo--utdhtdf29) · TechCrunch · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#sora](https://daily.dev/tags/sora) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/u-s-court-bars-openai-from-using-cameo--hweakstlx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"U.S. court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo'","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/u-s-court-bars-openai-from-using-cameo--hweakstlx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/u-s-court-bars-openai-from-using-cameo--hweakstlx"},"datePublished":"2026-02-18T06:45:09.018Z","dateModified":"2026-02-18T06:45:47.419Z","description":"A federal court ruled that OpenAI must stop using the name \"Cameo\" for its Sora video generation feature after Cameo, the celebrity video message platform,...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f187710f6eda8d52d20109d02e55a0d2?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f187710f6eda8d52d20109d02e55a0d2?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"TechCrunch","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TechCrunch","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tc","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/u-s-court-bars-openai-from-using-cameo--hweakstlx","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,openai,sora","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TechCrunch","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"U.S. court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo'"}]} ```