April 16, 2025 - Japan's antimonopoly watchdog has issued a cease and desist order against Google for unfair trade practices regarding search services for its Android devices.

5 days ago - Google has taken down dozens of AI-generated videos of Disney-owned characters after the studio sent a cease and desist letter on Wednesday.

October 11, 2025 - To prevent genericizing and potential loss of its trademark, Google has discouraged use of the word google as a verb, particularly when used as a synonym for general web searching. On February 23, 2003, Google sent a cease and desist letter to Paul McFedries, creator of Word Spy, a website ...

2 days ago - “Google is intentionally amplifying the scope of its infringement, by making its infringing AI Services available across so many channels to so many consumers, flooding the market with infringing works, and reaping enormous profits and other value from its unlawful, harmful, and damaging exploitation of Disney’s copyrighted works,” the letter reads. The cease-and-desist letter, sent from Jenner & Block attorney David Singer, goes on to allege that the intellectual property being infringed upon involves characters from Disney’s Frozen, The Lion King, Moana, The Little Mermaid, Deadpool, The Guardians of the Galaxy, and Star Wars.

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (hereinafter referred to as the “JFTC”) today issued a cease and desist order against Google LLC pursuant to the provisions of the Antimonopoly Act (hereinafter referred to as the “Act”). In this case, Google LLC has been committing an act that violates ...

3 days ago - Disney sent Google a cease and desist over AI videos featuring Marvel, Star Wars and other characters, just before its OpenAI licensing deal

1 week ago - Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google on Wednesday, alleging that the tech giant has infringed on its copyrights, Variety reports.

April 15, 2025 - Japan's competition watchdog issued a cease and desist order to Alphabet's Google on Tuesday for anticompetitive practices in the first such action against a U.S. tech giant.

5 days ago - Google is complying with Disney's cease-and-desist letter over AI videos using its characters.

5 days ago - Google is cooperating with Disney‘s cease and desist, removing dozens of AI-generated videos featuring characters belonging to the century-old entertainment conglomerate.

1 week ago - Disney’s letter calls out specific franchises, including Frozen, The Lion King, Moana, The Little Mermaid, Lilo and Stitch, Toy Story, Star Wars, and the MCU, as the IP Google’s AI tools are currently capable of generating. The company’s lawyers are requesting Google “immediately cease further copying, publicly displaying, publicly performing, distributing, and creating derivative works of Disney’s copyrighted characters,” specifically but not necessarily limited to YouTube and its various off-shoots, like Shorts.

5 days ago - Disney accused Google of copyright ... and distributing infringing images and videos. They sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google to get them to stop the infringement....

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1 week ago - Disney has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google accusing the tech giant of using Disney’s copyrighted works to train its AI models.

As Disney has gone into business ... accusing Google of copyright infringement on a “massive scale” using AI models and services to “commercially exploit and distribute” infringing images and videos. On Wednesday evening, attorneys for Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ...

4 days ago - Google seems to be cracking down on the use of Disney characters in AI-generated videos on YouTube after it was hit with a cease and desist letter.

3 days ago - Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google on December 11, 2025, accusing its AI tools like Gemini of massive copyright infringement by generating unauthorized content from Disney's franchises.

4 days ago - The gist: Google removed dozens of AI-generated videos featuring Disney characters from YouTube, complying with a cease-and-desist order issued earlier this week.

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has ordered Google to stop tying its search and browser apps to Android smartphones, issuing its first formal finding against a global digital platform but opting not to impose a fine.