On the same day that Disney cut a billion dollar deal with OpenAI for the use of its intellectual property in SORA, news came out that Disney went after Google for the same thing. Disney accused Google of copyright infringement on a “massive scale.” Much like its lawsuit against Midjourney, Disney accused Google of exploiting its characters and distributing infringing images and videos. They sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google to get them to stop the infringement.

In response, Google has removed dozens of AI-generated videos featuring Disney’s characters. In their letter, Disney flagged YouTube videos and demanded they were removed.

On Thursday, those links were working and now a message reads, “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Disney.”

Google released a statement that it would work with Disney on the issue:

We have a longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship with Disney, and will continue to engage with them,” the company said. “More generally, we use public data from the open web to build our AI and have built additional innovative copyright controls like Google-extended and Content ID for YouTube, which give sites and copyright holders control over their content.

Disney also demanded Google implement safeguards to prevent AI tools from generating Disney-owned characters and cease using Disney’s characters to train its AI models.