The Walt Disney Company recently announced a $1 billion licensing deal with OpenAI on December 11, 2025. This deal gives OpenAI access to over 200 Disney characters for AI-generated images and videos. Now, according to the Variety report, Disney has sent a cease-and-desist letter as a warning to stop using its characters immediately for image or video generation via Veo, Imagen, and Nano Banana. In simpler terms, it's accusing Google of copyright infringement. Advertisement

The Variety reported that Disney’s lawyers have highlighted in the letter that Google is infringing Disney’s copyrights “on a massive scale.” This means Google’s Gemini is using vast characters from Disney franchises, including Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and classic Disney characters, to create AI images and videos. In

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