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Hollywood Fights Seedance in Public, Quietly Uses It in Private
Hollywood publicly fought ByteDance's Seedance with cease-and-desist letters, yet an early-July 2026 Los Angeles Times investigation finds studios quietly tolerate the AI video tool on a 'don't ask, don't tell' basis, just as Seedance 2.5 launches. Here is what is verified, attributed source by source, and what is not.