"Piracy Is Piracy": Disney Sues Midjourney for Massive Copyright Violation
Ανακαλύψτε τις τελευταίες εξελίξεις στην τεχνολογία AI και την καινοτομία.
Minas Marios Kontis
Ανακαλύψτε τις τελευταίες εξελίξεις στην τεχνολογία AI και την καινοτομία.
Disney and NBCUniversal — a pair of media behemoths behind franchises ranging from "Star Wars" and "Toy Story" to "Minions" and "Shrek" — are suing AI company Midjourney, accusing it of enabling copyright infringement on a massive scale through its AI image generator tech.
In the lawsuit, which was filed in a California district court today, the two Hollywood juggernauts accused the firm of ignoring its previous requests to stop violating their intellectual property rights.
"Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism," the scathing complaint reads, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal.
It's a major escalation in the fight between copyright holders and AI firms, a battle that has been brewing for years. Per Axios, it's the "first legal action that major Hollywood studios have taken against a generative AI company."
And it's not just the use of image generators; generative AI writ large has triggered a barrage of lawsuits, with media companies accusing the likes of OpenAI and Google of training their large language models on their materials without fair compensation.
Those disputes have turned into a major pain point for the AI industry, despite surging enthusiasm for the tech.
Considering the sheer size of both Disney and Universal — Disney is the third largest media company by market cap in the world — Midjourney could soon be in a world of hurt.
Disney, in particular, has a long track rec
