Google Removes AI Disney Content After Legal Threat

sent Google a cease and desist letter accusing the company of copyright violations. The videos used popular characters such as Deadpool, Moana, Mickey Mouse, and figures from the Star Wars universe.

The company’s letter accused Google of “infringing Disney’s copyrights on a massive scale.” In the cease and desist letter, Disney provided a long list of characters it wants removed from YouTube and YouTube Shorts. These characters belong to famous shows like “Frozen,” “Moana,” “Toy Story,” “Deadpool,” “Iron Man,” “Lilo & Stitch,” and “Winnie the Pooh.”

The firm also claimed that used Disney-owned content to train its AI models, including Veo and Nano Banana, without permission.

In the same letter, Disney demanded not to use their characters to train its AI models and “implement safeguards to prevent its AI tools from generating Disney-owned characters.”