Warner Bros. found that copyright infringement lawsuit filed Thursday AI images and videos company Midjourneymaking it the third major entertainment company after Disney and Universal Pictures Similar lawsuits Submitted earlier this year.
The lawsuit alleges that AI companies violated the copyright protection of entertainment companies, allowing AI users to create images with characters like Batman, Scooby Doo and Bugs Bunny.
“Midjourney believes this is beyond the law,” Warner Bros. Explore said in the complaint. “Midjourney made a calculated, profit-driven decision zero Even if Midjourney knows its breathtaking scope of piracy and copyright infringement, it can protect the copyright owner. ”
Midjourney is the most popular AI image generatorallowing anyone to create AI images and video clips using simple text prompts. The lawsuit covers Warner Bros. Entertainment and its subsidiaries, including DC Comics, Cartoon Network and Hanna-Barbera Productions.
The images included in the filing of the lawsuit highlight Midjourney’s image generation capabilities.
In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. discovery noted that Midjourney has recently given up Video generation model As evidence that AI companies know it is infringing copyright. Midjourney prevented users from animate the scenes using characters, the lawsuit said. These restrictions were ultimately limited, but the entertainment giant called it Midjourney’s knowledge of wrongdoing. Warner Bros. Discovery also claims that AI companies have updated their terms of service to prohibit reorganization, which is used by a security process technology company.
For Midjourney, copyright infringement claims are not new. In June, Disney and Universal Prosecution The AI program calls it “bottomless stealing” and “textbook infringement.” Warner Bros. found represented by the same law firm representing Disney and the universal one.
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“The core of what we do is to cultivate stories and characters to entertain our audience and bring the horizons and passions of our creative partners to life,” Warner Bros. Discovery spokesman told CNET. “Midjourney blatantly and purposefully infringes on copyrighted works, and we proposed this suit to protect our content, our parties, our investments and investments.” A statement from a spokesperson for Disney and NBCUniversal expressed similar views. Midjourney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The lawsuit further proves that copyright is the largest Controversial legal issues In the AI era. At each stage of AI content creation there is concern, including whether to use copyrighted materials to train AI models and whether these models can create content that meets the definition of infringement laws.
There are also ongoing cases between publishers, creators and AI companies. AI-MAKERS Human and Yuan Two recent victories have been achieved, with the court claiming that training the author’s books constitutes a fair use. But there are still many problems and legal uncertainties.
(Disclosure: CNET’s parent company Ziff Davis filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April, accusing Ziff Davis of infringing on Ziff Davis’ copyright in training and operating its AI system.)
This is just the first step in the lawsuit. Midjourney users should not expect any interference due to legal struggles.
