Technology
Disney Paid a Billion Dollars. ByteDance Just Took It. — The Two Futures of AI Video
ByteDance's AI video model Seedance 2.0 has ignited a global copyright war by cloning Hollywood characters without permission. Meanwhile, Disney struck a $1 billion licensing deal with OpenAI, choosing the opposite path. These two divergent futures are exposing a fundamental design flaw in copyright for the AI age.