Disney and Universal file major copyright lawsuit against Midjourney over AI-generated characters

Disney and Universal Studios have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Midjourney, accusing the AI company of massive theft of their intellectual property to train its popular image generation service.

The lawsuit, filed in the Central District of California, alleges that Midjourney has built a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" by training its AI on copyrighted Disney and Universal characters without permission, then selling subscriptions that let users generate infringing images of characters like Darth Vader, Iron Man, the Minions, and Shrek. — Read the rest

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