"This morning Disney and OpenAI announced a three-year licensing agreement: Starting in 2026, ChatGPT and Sora can generate images and videos incorporating Disney IP, including more than 200 characters from the company's stable of Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel brands. To say these companies make for strange bedfellows is an understatement. The agreement brings together two parties with very different public stances on copyright."
"By contrast, Disney takes copyright law very seriously. In fact, you could argue no other company has done more to shape US copyright law than Disney. For example, there's the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which is more derisively known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. The law effectively froze the advancement of the public domain in the United States, with Disney being the greatest beneficiary."
Disney and OpenAI signed a three-year licensing agreement that allows ChatGPT and Sora to generate images and videos using Disney intellectual property starting in 2026, covering over 200 characters from Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel. OpenAI previously told studios they would need to opt out of having their work appear in Sora, then backtracked, and acknowledged in a regulatory filing that training leading AI models would be "impossible" without copyrighted materials. Disney has significantly shaped US copyright law, including the Sonny Bono extension that constrained the public domain. Disney will host a curated selection of Sora-generated videos on Disney+ and invested $1 billion in OpenAI.
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