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Coogan: Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and licensing IP to Sora
“Disney, which is investing one billion dollars in OpenAI and is going to license their characters for use in Sora.”
Hays: Disney accuses Google of massive copyright infringement with AI models
“As Disney has gone into business with OpenAI, the Mouse House is accusing Google of copyright infringement on massive scale, using AI models and services to commercially exploit and distribute infringing images and videos.”
Cameron: Meta Horizon and Disney+ will transform 3D distribution within 18 months
“The only reason they don't is because there's no defined distribution model. But that's coming. That's what the Disney Plus agreement with Meta Horizon TV itself, you know, it's, everything's gonna change in the next 18 months.”
Coogan: Disney is picking OpenAI over Google as the winner in AI video
“It does feel like Disney's sort of like picking a winner here in AI video, and they're saying like, we like OpenAI and we don't like Google, which is sort of a bold move.”
Coogan: Disney's three-year Sora deal includes over 200 characters and Disney+ streaming
“Disney's three year licensing deal Will let users generate videos using Sora of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar characters. A curated selection of these short videos will be available to stream on Disney+.”
Hays: Disney's ecosystem moat makes its IP far harder to replicate
“It's hard, extremely difficult and time intensive to create valuable IP. And Disney's advantage is they have this sort of, like, three 60, and that they can make a film, and they can bring it to Disneyland, they can bring it to a cruise, they can create physic…”
Coogan: Disney will win AI copyright revenue through the courts
“And I think that they will through the courts, especially because as like big companies, like you're not, so it's not this crazy, oh, there's like a bunch of kids doing random things.”
Coogan: Fully AI-generated custom content won't be Disney's domain
“And so I do think that the fully AI generated, fully custom content that will exist, but it will exist on independent third-party platforms. It won't be the domain of Disney.”
Hays: AI content customization will take off via interactive film variations
“I think that broadly, like, content customization will probably take off, because you could, Disney can make a film now, and then you could make millions of different variations of it that become interactive with, like, the underlying fan.”
Disney Returned At Least $70 Billion to Shareholders Via Buybacks
“Disney, across dividends and buybacks, has returned, like, seventy billion, maybe more, to shareholders”
Hays: Disney sends cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance over Seedance 2.0
“Disney, as expected, sent a cease and desist letter to ByteDance over C-dance two point O.”
Hays: Content IP holders will benefit from falling AI production costs
“I think if you have a lot of IP right now, And the cost to produce great content drops dramatically. You're going to benefit from that.”
Altman: Personally excited to 'open the floodgates' on generating Disney IP
“I'm not sure what the team is planning there. I know Disney's had some different opinions about how they, what they want to do and try to be a good partner there, but I'd be excited to open the floodgates personally.”
Coogan: Pop Mart Executes Disney-Style Playbook on New IP
“It seems like Popmart's capable of running Like, a Disney-esque monetization playbook on top of somewhat new IP, which is pretty crazy.”
Pop Mart executes a Disney-style monetization playbook on new intellectual property.
“Seems like Popmart's capable of running, like, a Disney-esque monetization playbook on top of somewhat new IP, which is pretty crazy.”
Senra: Apple's iPhone revenue alone eclipses Disney's entire combined business
“Apple makes more from the iPhone if they just had the iPhone and nothing else than, like, Disney does from every single thing they've ever, like, they, everything, all their theme parks, all their movies, everything else, just, like, that one single product.”