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Disney And NBCUniversal Sue AI Company Midjourney For Copyright Infringement


The studios sued Midjourney for an image generation service.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, is the first major legal action that studios have taken against an AI company. Horacio Gutierrez, senior executive vice president and chief legal and compliance officer for Disney, said in a statement, “Our world-class IP is built on decades of financial investment, creativity and innovation—investments only made possible by the incentives embodied in copyright law that give creators the exclusive right to profit from their works. Kim Harris, executive vice president and general counsel of NBCU, said, “Creativity is the cornerstone of our business.

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