Midjourney accused of ‘brazen theft’ in Warner Bros. Discovery lawsuit

Warner Bros. Discovery continues Midjourney for copyright violation, joining Disney and Universal in the battle on the IA impact on cinema and television.

“Midjourney thinks that it is above the law. It sells a commercial subscription service, powered by artificial intelligence technology, which has been developed using illegal objects of the copyright protected by Warner Bros. Discovery,” said the complaint.

The prosecution claims that Midjourney is built on the flight by providing “cheeky” the intellectual property of Warner Bros. Discovery. An example? Bugs Bunny, according to the complaint filed Thursday at California Federal Court and the Hollywood Reporter. According to the Associated Press, other examples include Superman, Batman, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Scooby-Doo and The Powerpuff Girls.

“The heart of what we do is to develop stories and characters to entertain our audience, giving life to the vision and passion of our creative partners,” said a spokesperson for Warner Bros. Discovery in a press release at the Hollywood Reporter. “Midjourney obviously and deliberately counterfeits works protected by copyright, and we have filed this pursuit to protect our content, our partners and our investments.”

According to the Associated Press, the trial maintains that Midjourney creates “a confusion of consumers concerning what is legal and what is not legal by deceiving its subscribers to believe that the massive copy of Midjourney and the countless images and videos of violation generated by its service are somehow authorized by Warner Bros. Discovery.”

Warner Bros. Discovery is looking for $ 150,000 per raped work.

It is only many proceedings against artificial intelligence – Anthropic has paid copyright for $ 15 billion earlier this month, and the Disney and Comcast complaint in June alleges that Midjourney is a “background blank of plagiarism”.