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Disney and Universal Studios file suit against Midjourney for copyright infringement
Disney and NBCUniversal have filed a joint suit against AI company Midjourney alleging copyright infringement on their various properties. The complaint, filed in federal district court in Los Angeles, includes images created by Midjourney that feature a wide variety of protected characters from each company’s various properties, including Star Wars, Shrek, The Simpsons, Despicable Me and others. The 110-page suit alleges that the AI company “helped itself to countless” copyrighted works when training its models that have been creating and disseminating “innumerable” copies of these characters via AI-generated images.
In the lawsuit Midjourney is described as "the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism.” Disney and NBCUniversal ar [...]
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