{"id":158315,"date":"2025-11-25T06:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158315\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T06:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:14:16","slug":"openai-learned-the-hard-way-that-cameo-trademarked-the-word-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158315\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI learned the hard way that Cameo trademarked the word &#8216;cameo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI\u2019s social app <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/30\/openai-is-launching-the-sora-app-its-own-tiktok-competitor-alongside-the-sora-2-model\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sora<\/a> launched with a controversial feature called <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/01\/openais-new-social-app-is-filled-with-terrifying-sam-altman-deepfakes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameo<\/a>, allowing users to deepfake themselves or others (with permission). The feature had a tenuous rollout \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/16\/openai-pauses-sora-video-generations-of-martin-luther-king-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s estate<\/a> had to get involved, to give you an idea of what went on \u2014 but now it faces a new challenge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently, Cameo \u2014 the app where you buy custom video messages from celebrities \u2014 can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/11\/24\/openai-temporarily-blocked-from-using-cameo-after-trademark-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">claim the trademark<\/a> of the word \u201ccameo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee imposed a temporary restraining order that blocks OpenAI from using the word \u201ccameo,\u201d as well as any similar-sounding words or phrases, on Sora.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The temporary restraining order issued on November 21, 2025 is set to expire on December 22, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for December 19, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of Monday afternoon, the Sora app still uses the \u201ccameo\u201d language, however. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> \u201cWe are gratified by the court\u2019s decision, which recognizes the need to protect consumers from the confusion that OpenAI has created by using the Cameo trademark,\u201d Cameo CEO Steven Galanis said in a statement. \u201cWhile the court\u2019s order is temporary, we hope that OpenAI will agree to stop using our mark permanently to avoid any further harm to the public or Cameo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI disagrees with the assertion that the company can claim exclusive ownership over the word \u201ccameo,\u201d the company told CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 13-15, 2026\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s social app Sora launched with a controversial feature called Cameo, allowing users to deepfake themselves or others&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61761,61,2029,60,1682,37485,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-158315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-cameo","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-in-brief","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-openai","16":"tag-sora","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}