The lines are being drawn. Disney today warned rival Google against what it called copyright infringement on a massive scale to train its AI models and from distributing images and videos across its ecosystem, including YouTube.

The warning in a lawyer’s letter from Disney to Google follows news of the Mouse’s l andmark deal to invest $1 billion in Sora parent OpenAI , a Google rival.

“Without waiving any rights or remedies, Disney hereby provides notice that Google must remove all infringing Disney content on YouTube and YouTube Shorts that Google has created with its AI Services,” Disney demanded in a letter to Google viewed by Deadline.

This follows cease-and-desist letters that Disney sent earlier to Meta and Character.AI, as well as litigation it filed together with NBCUniv

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