In a groundbreaking legal action, major Hollywood studios including Disney, NBCUniversal, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century, Universal City Studios Productions, and DreamWorks Animation have filed a lawsuit against AI image-synthesis company Midjourney. The studios allege that Midjourney’s AI model, which generates images from user prompts, infringes on copyrights by producing images of iconic characters like Darth Vader and Shrek. The complaint, lodged in the US District Court in Los Angeles, states that Midjourney trained its AI on copyrighted artworks without permission. The studios claim that 75% of the AI-generated images they examined were direct copies or close derivatives of copyrighted material. They provided evidence showing AI versions of characters such as Yoda, Wall-E, Stormtroopers, Minions, and those from How to Train Your Dragon. The lawsuit accuses Midjourney of using “bots, scrapers, streamrippers, video downloaders, and web crawlers” to illegally gather copyrighted content for training its AI.
Creator’s Toolbox
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7h Disney and Universal are suing
@Midjourney
, claiming the AI tool infringes their copyrights by generating images of characters like Darth Vader, Elsa, and the Minions.
The suit says Midjourney ignored requests to stop and seeks damages and an injunction.
pannchoa
@pannchoa
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Apr 8 HYBE America gets sued by American artist for copyright infringement
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PC Gamer
@pcgamer
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17h ‘A bottomless pit of plagiarism’: Disney and Universal sue AI image generator Midjourney for copyright infringement
WIRED
@WIRED
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19h “This is an extremely significant development,” says one IP lawyer, who sees the images as compelling evidence that “the output is not sufficiently transformative,” and therefore not protected by the “fair use” doctrine.
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Cake
@CakeDegg
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Apr 8 HYBE America Inc,the US branch of HYBE, has been sued for copyright infringement by contemporary artist Daniel Arsham. The lawsuit alleges that Quavo, a rapper under the label Quality Control Music Publishing , used Daniel Arsham’s artwork without permission in a new music video
ikey & The Markets
@mikeyworldpeace
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3h $DIS $CMCSA | Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Los Angeles against Midjourney, alleging that the AI-powered image generator illegally copied and distributed “innumerable” images of their copyrighted characters — including Darth Vader from
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