2 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.

1 day 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.

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.

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 ...

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

2 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....

1 day 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.

1 day 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.

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.

4 days 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.

3 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.

4 days 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.

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

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16 hours ago - Google has taken down videos on YouTube featuring AI-generated Disney characters after the cease-and-desist letter was sent.

15 hours ago - Google has started removing AI-generated videos depicting Disney characters from YouTube. This happened after Disney sent the company an official letter demanding a cease and desist for copyright infringement.

5 hours ago - Disney has sent Google a cease-and-desist over alleged large-scale use of copyrighted characters for AI training and outputs.