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‘Blade Runner’ Suit Against Tesla And Warner Bros. Can Proceed, Federal Judge Rules, But Defendants Succeed In Narrowing Scope


'Blade Runner 2049' producer Alcon Entertainment's lawsuit against Tesla and Warner Bros. over the use of copyrighted images can proceed, a judge ruled.

Elon Musk and 'Blade Runner 2049'Getty/Everett The scope of the complaint, however, was narrowed in a ruling late Monday by Judge George Wu in the U.S. District Court of Central California. Still pending are Alcon’s charge of copyright infringement, which stems from the use of images from the sci-fi sequel starring Ryan Gosling to train AI tools involved in generating materials for Tesla. The crux of the production firm’s objection was Musk’s “massively amplified, highly politicized, capricious and arbitrary behavior, which sometimes veers into hate speech.”

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