Disney and Universal have filed a copyright lawsuit against the Midjourney artificial intelligence image generator, marking the first time Hollywood companies have entered the legal battle on the generating.
Submitted to the Los Angeles Federal Court, the appeal claims that the Midjourney Pirated Libraries of the two Hollywood studios to generate and distribute “endless unauthorized copies” of their famous characters, such as Darth Vader by Star Wars and Minions from Despicable Me.
“Midjourney is a free copyright knight and an endless plagiarism pit. Piracy is piracy, and if an image or video breaker is made with him or another technology does not make it less violation,” the companies say.
Studios also claimed that the company based in San Francisco ignored their demands to stop the violation of their copyright protected works and take technological measures to stop such image generation.
Midjourney did not immediately respond to a comment request Wednesday.
In a 2022 interview with the Associated Press, the General Director of Midjourney David Holz described his service for creating images as “type as a search engine” drawing in a wide number of images from the entire internet. He compared copyright concerns about technology to the way such laws have adapted to human creativity.
“Can a person look at someone else’s photo and learn from her and make a similar picture?” Holz said. “Of course, it is allowed for people and if it were not, then it would destroy the whole professional art industry, perhaps even the unprofessional industry. To the extent he is learning as humans, it is the same thing and if the images come out differently, then it seems good.”
The main developers of that do not usually reveal their data sources, but have argued that obtaining text tests, images and other accessible media to train their systems is protected by the doctrine of “just use” of American copyright law.
The studio case ‘joins a growing number of lawsuits raised against he – such as Openai, Anthropic – in San Francisco and New York.
Meanwhile, the first major copyright trial of the generation industry is underway in London, throwing images Getty against artificial intelligence stability.
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