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The film studios believe that Midjourney has violated their copyrights.
The film studios believe that Midjourney has violated their copyrights.
What is happening?
Disney and Universal are suing the AI-creator Midjourney over copyright infringement, Reuters and AFP said.
A “bottomless pit of plagiarism”
According to Reuters, the film studios called the AI-image generator a “bottomless pit of plagiarism”.
Claims libraries have been pirated
According to the suit, the film studios accuse Midjourney of pirating the studios’ libraries to make and distribute “innumerable” copis of characters without permission.
Characters mentioned is Darth Vader from “Star Wars”, the Minions from the “Despicable Me” movies and Elsa from “Frozen”.
Midjourney silent
At the time of publishing, Midjourney has yet to comment on the allegations as well as the lawsuit.
Piracy is piracy
In a statement, Disney’s executive vice president and chief legal officer, Horacio Gutierrez, said:
“Piracy is piracy, and the fact that it’s done by an AI company does not make it any less infringing.”
A “big scrape of the internet”
In an interview with Forbes in 2022, Midjourney CEO and founder, David Holz, explained that the companies database was created by doing a “big scrape of the internet”.