Disney and Universal Studios files against Midjourney due to the violation of copyright

Disney and NBCuniversal filed a joint lawsuit against Midjourney International, claiming that copyright violates their various property. The complaint, which was submitted at the Federal District Court in Los Angeles, includes pictures created by Midjourney, which features a wide range of personalities protected from different real estate for each company, including Star Wars, Shrek, The Simpsons and Despable Me. The 110 -page lawsuit claims that the artificial intelligence company “helped itself in countless works that have been copyright when training its models that were creating and publishing copies” countless “of these characters through the images created from artificial intelligence.

In the lawsuit, Midjourney is described as “the free edition of perfect copyright and a bottom hole of plagiarism.” Disney and NBCuniversal are the first major players in Hollywood who are now entering the busy field in the lawsuit of violation of publishing rights Amnesty International; It comes against the background of similar lawsuits against and and .

Art intersection and artificial intelligence It is still killed in court, although the lawsuit filed by two of the largest names in the media characteristics bears an enormous weight. “We are optimistic about the promise of artificial intelligence technology and optimism about how to use it responsibly as a tool to increase human creativity,” Disney General Adviser, in an email to New York Times. “But piracy is piracy, and the fact that AI does not make it less violating.”

In a separate email to “We offer this measure today to protect the hard work for all artists whose work enjoys and inspires us and the important investment that we do in our content,” said Kim Harris, General Adviser to NBCunivesal.

We have contacted Midjourney to comment and we will update if we hear again.

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