2025-06-11
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 [...]
Rating
Innovation
Pricing
Technology
Usability
We have discovered similar tools to what you are looking for. Check out our suggestions for similar AI tools.
2025-09-05
Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney for copyright infringement
Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against popular AI image generator Midjourney, accusing it of stealing and exploiting its intellectual properties. The complaint revolves around the AI tool& [...]
2025-09-16
Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal file joint lawsuit against generative AI app Hailuo
Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery are teaming up on the latest blockbuster AI lawsuit, this time against Chinese company MiniMax, owner of Hailuo AI. The three mega-studios, which collectiv [...]
2025-02-13
Major publishers sue AI startup Cohere over copyright infringement
Major publishers, including Politico and Vox, and their parent companies are suing the AI startup Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement, according to the Wall Street Journal. This is another [...]
2025-11-04
UK High Court sides with Stability AI over Getty in copyright case
Stability AI has partially succeeded in defending itself against accusations of copyright infringement. As reported by The Guardian, Stability AI prevailed in a high-profile UK High Court case, follow [...]
2025-09-30
Disney sends cease and desist letter to Character.AI
Disney has demanded that Character.AI stop using its copyrighted characters. Axios reports that the entertainment juggernaut sent a cease and desist letter to Character.AI, claiming that it has chatbo [...]
2025-01-03
Anthropic agrees to work with music publishers to prevent copyright infringement
Anthropic has partly resolved a legal disagreement that saw the AI startup draw the ire of the music industry. In October 2023, a group of music publishers, including Universal Music and ABKCO, filed [...]