U.S. Senators Demand ByteDance Shut Down Seedance 2.0 Over Copyright and Likeness Violations

Tekedia | 18-03-2026 11:08am |

Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) have called for ByteDance to immediately cease operations of its AI video-generation tool Seedance 2.0, accusing the Chinese tech giant of enabling widespread copyright infringement and unauthorized use of personal likenesses. In a letter first obtained by CNBC on Thursday, the bipartisan duo described Seedance 2.0 as

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