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China’s MiniMax curbs overseas access to new AI video model over copyright disputes

Chinese artificial intelligence company MiniMax has open-sourced its new H3 video model but imposed licensing conditions on users in major overseas markets including the US and European Union, underscoring the copyright challenges in generative video AI. After the Shanghai-based company released the model’s weights to developers on Monday, users found that the licence restricted free access in the US, EU, UK and South Korea. The weights – the underlying parameters that encode its intelligence –.

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Published: 4 August 2026
Source: SCMP Tech (HK/CN)
Category: News
Topics: Copyright & IP
Retrieved: 5 August 2026

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ethics.ai (4 August 2026), “China’s MiniMax curbs overseas access to new AI video model over copyright disputes,” evidence record 16509, https://ethics.ai/record/16509 (originally published by SCMP Tech (HK/CN)).

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