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Disney and Universal sue AI image creator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement
Studios accuse AI firm of ‘piracy’ and seek injunction over alleged use of copyrighted characters
In their lawsuit, the entertainment giants called Midjourney’s popular AI-powered image generator a “bottomless pit of plagiarism” for its alleged reproductions of the studios’ best-known characters. The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the two Hollywood studios, making and distributing without permission “innumerable” copies of their marquee characters such as Darth Vader from Star Wars, Elsa from Frozen, and the Minions from Despicable Me. In late 2023, the New York Times sued OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, and Microsoft, which owns a 49% stake in the startup, alleging unauthorized use and reproduction of its articles, which comprise a vast corpus of text.
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