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The uproar began last week after a video depicting a fight scene between two figures closely resembling Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt went viral.
In an email to NPR, ByteDance said it respects intellectual property rights and is taking steps to strengthen current safeguards, but did not say how.
Netflix is the latest media giant to push back against ByteDance this week when it sent the Chinese company a cease and desist letter.
Netflix accuses ByteDance of allowing its latest AI video creation tool, Seedance 2.0, to generate hyper-realistic imitations of characters from such Netflix-owned shows as Bridgerton and Squid Game.
Industry stakeholders, including the Motion Picture Association, have also joined the backlash.
The uproar began last week after a video depicting a fight scene between two figures closely resembling Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt went viral.
In an email to NPR, ByteDance said it respects intellectual property rights and is taking steps to strengthen current safeguards, but did not say how.
This is the third Winter Olympics at which figure skaters have been allowed to use vocal music.
The International Skating Union ruled on this change more than a decade ago.
In Milan, US ice dancers Madison Chok and Evan Bates skated to a medley of Lenny Kravitz songs.
Daphne Backman is the owner and editor-in-chief of IceDance.com.
She says the broadening of musical choices is enabling the sport to connect with younger audiences on social media.
But at this Olympics, copyright problems have become a major headache.
Some competitors, like Russia's Peter Gumenik, had to make last-minute soundtrack changes because they lacked the necessary permissions.
Frederick Wiseman was extremely prolific.
He made roughly 50 documentaries.
Many of them chronicled the inner workings of institutions like the Idaho State Legislature, the New York Public Library and a high school in Philadelphia.