Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. find collaborating This time, against the Chinese company Minimax, the owner of Hailuo AI. Three large groups, jointly represent filed a lawsuit against AI-powered image and video generation platforms in California, claiming it was “a massive scale of copyrighted works by pirated and competing for plaintiffs.”
The lawsuit includes dozens of screenshots covering a range of various studio IPs, from DC and Marvel Universes’ superheroes to Star Wars, minions and a variety of other cartoons and animated movies.
The allegations included in the lawsuit are that not only did Minimax fail to take reasonable actions to avoid infringement, but the company is actively involved and encourages these infringement creations.
The lawsuit alleges a business model purposefully built in “intentional and rough” cases of violations of protected works that violate U.S. copyright laws. According to the suit, Minimax uses iOS’s Hailuo AI app and Android as “Hollywood Studio” as “Hollywood Studio”. Screenshots of these ads are included in the suit.
This is the latest in a series of compelling lawsuits filed by media companies for content generated by AI. Earlier this month Prosecuting popular AI Image Generator Midjourney with similar claims, A joint lawsuit was filed against him in June.
TV and movies are not the only industries that accuse AI companies of blatant copyright crimes, and the publishing community has seen quite a few lawsuits. Humanity is the AI company behind Claude, and has just arrived In class action cases representing more than 500,000 authors, although they are judges Solution. So is Apple The company is accused of using pirated books to train its AI models.
You can read the full complaint below:
