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#Copyright

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Disney and Universal sued a prominent artificial intelligence start-up for copyright infringement on Wednesday, bringing Hollywood belatedly into the increasingly intense battle over generative A.I.

The movie companies sued Midjourney, an A.I. image generator that has tens of millions of registered users. The 110-page lawsuit contends that Midjourney “helped itself to countless” copyrighted works to train its software, which allows people to create images (and soon videos) that “blatantly incorporate and copy Disney’s and Universal’s famous characters.”

“Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism,” the companies said in the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
Midjourney did not respond to requests for comment.

A.I. start-ups like Midjourney, which was introduced in 2022, train their software with data scraped from the internet and elsewhere, often without compensating creators. The practice has resulted in lawsuits from authors, artists, record labels and news organizations, among others. (The New York Times has sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, for copyright infringement. OpenAI and Microsoft have denied those claims, saying their actions fall under “fair use.”)"

nytimes.com/2025/06/11/busines

Midjourney’s A.I.-generated image of Darth Vader.
The New York Times · Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm Midjourney for Copyright InfringementBy Brooks Barnes
#AI#GenerativeAI#GeneratedImages
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Eduardo :d3:⚖️​:copyleft:🔓

Registrations are open for the online course on IP and Sustainability, by NOVA IPSI.
1-10 September.

#IP #IntellectualProperty #Copyright #Sustainability #SDGs

novalaw.unl.pt/en/summer-cours

NOVA School of Law | Faculdade de Direito da Universidade NOVA de LisboaSummer Course on Intellectual Property & Sustainability1 to 11 September 2025 Summer Course on Intellectual Property & Sustainability Presentation Programme Registrations Presentation Innovating for a better world. This Summer Course dives into one of the legal perspectives that are most relevant to this current global challenge, setting the focus on the link between Intellectual Property (IP) and Sustainability. We will dive … Summer Course on Intellectual Property & Sustainability Read More »
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Melissa Ditmore

As an author, I believe AI companies should license creative works for training, not take them without permission. Join me in urging Congress and the president to protect creators' rights! #copyright #AI

The creative industries contribute $2 trillion to our economy and employ 11+ million people. Let's protect this vital sector from unlicensed AI training. #copyright #AI

copyrightalliance.org/get-invo

Copyright Alliance · Take ActionYour Voice Matters, It's Time to Take Action! Below you’ll find the campaigns that the Copyright Alliance is facilitating. We encourage all creators and friends of the creative community to review the campaigns and participate in the ones that
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Pivot to AI [RSS]

Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney

Midjourney runs a diffusion model that you can ask to generate pictures. Disney and Universal and several other movie studios have sued because Midjourney keeps spitting out their copyrighted characters. [Complaint, PDF; case docket] This is the first suit by big Hollywood movie studios against a generative AI company. Disney first went for one of […]

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/12/dis

Pivot to AI · Disney sues AI image generator MidjourneyMidjourney runs a diffusion model that you can ask to generate pictures. Disney and Universal and several other movie studios have sued because Midjourney keeps spitting out their copyrighted chara…
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Wolf Ha

For over a month now the UK government and the House of Lords have been locked in a battle over the proposed Data (Use and Access) Bill.

The House of Lords has blocked passage of the bill for five times in the process known as parliamentary ping-pong. While the fight is over #AI and #copyright, it generally concerns questions of transparency.

#AiRegulation

misaligned.xyz/ping-pong-the-u

misaligned · Ping-Pong: The UK Government Vs The Lords On AI Data Transparency | misalignedBy Wolfgang Hauptfleisch
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Disney and Universal sue AI firm, label it 'bottomless pit of plagiarism'
By Jessica Riga

Disney and Universal file a copyright infringement lawsuit against an AI firm the Hollywood giants describe as a "bottomless pit of plagiarism".

abc.net.au/news/2025-06-12/dis

ABC News · Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney for copyright infringementBy Jessica Riga
#Courts#ArtsCultureandEntertainment#LawCrimeandJustice
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Haderach C. Kwisatch

"Matthew Sag, a professor of law (…) at Emory University, believes #Midjourney will have a harder time making a fair use case than previous AI defendants.

“The reason it’s different is that #Disney directly attacks the output of the model. It doesn’t just use a few cherry-picked examples to prove that the model was trained on its works,” he says. “It’s going to be very difficult for a court or a jury to accept that it is transformative to take 1,000 pictures of DarthVader and use them to produce even more pictures of DarthVader.

"The lawsuit alleges that Disney and #Universal have asked Midjourney to “adopt technological measures” to prevent its image generators from producing infringing materials, but that the company “ignored” their demands. Additionally, it alleges that Midjourney “cleaned” copies of Universal and Disney’s work during the training process, which “necessarily included creating more copies of the materials.…" #copyright

(anyone know what #cleaning is in #genAI #training?"

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