If you’ve been following the Sora 2 news closely since the limited public release of OpenAi’s new video generator began on September 30, you may have seen some unflattering videos featuring the likeness of iconic TV actor Bryan Cranston’s voice—often as Violation is bad protagonist walter white. Apparently Cranston saw them too, and found them so appealing that he talked to his union, sag-aftra, about it.
But the good news: Opelai has apparently cleared Cranston’s missteps, and is publicly praising the company now.
In a statement released Monday sag-aftra (deadline), Cranston said at first that he “didn’t do it for myself, but for all the people who do their work.”
To be clear, he may have been concerned about this video posted in the mall parking lot where Cranston (appearing as Mphichael White) and the late singer Michael Jackson announced to Jackson’s vlog viewers who have already hung up.
Maybe you saw this great piece of fan fiction where Cranston and the rest of the Core Breaking Caspord Cans in what appears to be the Vietnam War:
Breaking Bad – I’m Napalm (ParOdy Music Video)#ai #breakbad #Memes #sora# sora2 pic.twitter.com/BT59hkqkt
– Saga Lore Ai (@sgagalorea) October 7, 2025
On October 8, Cranston’s agency released a statement threatening SORA 2, asking in part:
The question is, Do Opelai and its partner companies believe that people, writers, artists, musicians, directors, producers deserve to be compensated and given the work they create? Or does OpenAI believe that it can simply steal, disregarding the world’s copyright principles and the expulsion of the rights of creators, and the many people who support the production, creation, and publication of this human work?
By Monday, however, Cranston had seen something he liked, and he was no longer upset. He announced that he “thanked Alandai for his policy and improving its Guardrali.”
In addition, the deadline means sag-aftra, accai, the association of talent agents, the United Talent Agency in the Agency was released from these generations related to finding generations related to the voice. “
On October 3, well before CAA’s angry statement about Sora 2, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman painted a slightly different picture in regards to OpenAI’s copyright policy upon the release of Sora 2. He wrote in a blog post that in light of how the product was being used, OpenAI “will give rightsholders more granular control over generation of characters, similar to the opt-in model for likeness but with additional controls,” and added, “We are going to try sharing some of this revenue with developers who want their characters to be removed by users.”
We’ve asked OpenAI to clarify a timeline for Sora 2’s copyright policy, and will update when we hear back.
Altman wrote in the same post that a little more money has been made with the money of the video generation. “
