By Glenn Garner
Publication Date: 2025-12-13 03:15:00
Google is cooperating with Disney‘s cease and desist, removing dozens of AI-generated videos featuring characters belonging to the century-old entertainment conglomerate.
Following the Disney’s $1B deal with OpenAI for three-year licensing of several characters on Sora, Google has taken down dozens of AI videos from YouTube featuring Mickey Mouse, Deadpool, Moana and more.
“We have a longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship with Disney, and will continue to engage with them,” a Google rep said in a statement. “More generally, we use public data from the open web to build our AI and have built additional innovative copyright controls like Google-extended and Content ID for YouTube, which give sites and copyright holders control over their content.”
On Wednesday, Disney fired off the letter claiming that Google’s AI training models and services infringe on its copyrights on a “massive scale,” just before the company…
