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ByteDance's Douyin wins appeal to safeguard its AI model via competition law

By MLex Staff ( April 16, 2025, 03:06 GMT | Insight) -- ByteDance’s short-video platform Douyin, known as TikTok’s sister app in China, has secured a victory in safeguarding its artificial intelligence model designed for transforming real pictures into comic-style images. In a recent landmark appellate ruling, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court determined that the architecture and parameters of Douyin’s AI model had been unlawfully incorporated by a rival company into its own camera app, which violated Douyin’s interests protectable under China’s Anti-Unfair Competition Law.ByteDance’s short-video platform Douyin, known as TikTok’s sister app in China, has secured a victory in safeguarding its artificial-intelligence model designed for transforming real pictures into comic-style images....

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