Disney despatched a cease-and-desist letter to Google on Wednesday, alleging that the tech big has infringed on its copyrights, Selection studies.
Disney is accusing the tech big of copyright infringement on a “huge scale,” claiming it has used AI fashions and companies to commercially distribute unauthorized photographs and movies, in accordance with the letter seen by Selection.
“Google operates as a digital merchandising machine, able to reproducing, rendering, and distributing copies of Disney’s beneficial library of copyrighted characters and different works on a mass scale,” the letter reads. “And compounding Google’s blatant infringement, most of the infringing photographs generated by Google’s AI Companies are branded with Google’s Gemini emblem, falsely implying that Google’s exploitation of Disney’s mental property is allowed and endorsed by Disney.”
The letter alleges that Google’s AI techniques infringe characters from “Frozen,” “The Lion King,” “Moana,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Deadpool,” and extra.” Google didn’t reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark.
The transfer comes the identical day that Disney signed a $1 billion, three-year cope with OpenAI that may carry its iconic characters to the corporate’s Sora AI video generator.