OpenAI’s Sora generative AI can easily create short videos from user prompts, often with copyrighted characters. (Photo by Masaharu Ban)
Nikkei staff writers
October 4, 2025 01:33 JST
TOKYO — U.S.-based OpenAI’s new Sora generative artificial intelligence has created a flood of videos with characters from popular Japanese franchises such as Pokemon and Dragonball, stoking frustration among publishers about what they view as inadequate intellectual property safeguards.