Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney to say that the startup AI “insolently gives her intellectual property, as if she was her own,” as she reports earlier By The Hollywood Reporter. IN ClaimWarner Bros. Discovery claims that Midjourney generated “countless”, violating the images and films of his copyright protected by copyright, including Superman, Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo and many others.
Warner Bros. Discovery accuses Midjourney of reproduction, display and distribution of “unauthorized derivatives” of his intellectual property through tools for generating image and video AI. In the process of Warner Bros. Discovery shares several examples of how the AI Midjourney tools seem, which generated photos of copyright protected characters, such as Wonder Woman, Tweets, Power Puff Girls, and even Rick and Morty in response to hints asking for characters in some situations.
In addition, Warner Bros. Discover claims that Midjourney will generate a violation of images, even if prompts do not mention a specific character. For example, Midjourney allegedly generated photos to download Superman, Batman and Flash after receiving the monitor “Classic Comic Book Superhero Battle”. Midjourney is in the face of a similar lawsuit by Disney and Universal, which called the image generator of the company “virtual vending machine”, which generates “endless authorized copies” of their work.
Warner Bros. Discovery claims that Midjourney is aware of the “breathtaking scope of his piracy and copyright violation,” but refuses to protect copyrights.
“It is hard to imagine a violation of copyright, which is more intentional than what Midjourney does here,” says the lawsuit. “Midjourney intentionally uses the valuable intellectual property of Warner Bros. Discovera to attract subscribers to Midjourney, and derive profits by providing subscribers with endless copies and derivatives of works protected by the copyright of Warner Bros. Discovera.”
Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for damages related to the alleged violation of copyright and asks the court to block Midjourney before copying, displaying or distributing intellectual property, as well as stopping the company from offering AI tools without copyright protection. Midjourney did not answer immediately at the request for comment.