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Disney, Universal File First Major Studio Lawsuit Against AI Company, Sue Midjourney for Copyright Infringement: ‘This Is Theft’
Disney and NBCU filed suit against Midjourney, a generative AI start-up, alleging copyright infringement.
Midjourney’s conduct misappropriates Disney’s and Universal’s intellectual property and threatens to upend the bedrock incentives of U.S. copyright law that drive American leadership in movies, television, and other creative arts.” Disney and NBCU are seeking unspecified monetary damages, as well as a “preliminary and/or permanent injunctive relief enjoining and restraining Midjourney” from infringing on or distributing their copyrighted works. Horacio Gutierrez, senior executive VP, chief legal and compliance officer of the Walt Disney Co., said in a statement provided to Variety: “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.
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