In a move that’s already shaking the entertainment and tech industries, The Walt Disney Company announced Thursday that it will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI , granting the startup unprecedented access to the Disney vault — literally. As part of a sweeping three-year licensing agreement, Disney will allow OpenAI’s Sora app to generate videos featuring more than 200 iconic characters across Disney Animation, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars beginning next year.

OpenAI’s video-generation app Sora, which launched in September and immediately shot to the top of Apple’s App Store, lets users create short videos simply by typing what they want to see. Until now, those videos existed in a legal gray zone : users flooded social platforms with Sora-generated clips featuri

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