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In a response to Disney and Universal's copyright infringement lawsuit, Midjourney points out the companies have used ...
AI lab Midjourney has come out swinging against an infringement lawsuit filed by Disney and Universal and asserting fair use.
Midjourney rejects Disney and Universal’s copyright claims, arguing AI training is fair use in landmark lawsuit.
In a surprising turn of events, Disney and Universal jointly filed a lawsuit against Midjourney a few weeks back. The ...
The studios also claim that Midjourney then "cleaned" and converted digital files of copyrighted intellectual property to use in its training data so that its tools could then provide outputs ...
Midjourney responds to Disney and Universal's lawsuit, arguing fair use and accusing studios of using GenAI while trying to ...
The studio has begun adding legal warnings to the credits of films including "Jurassic World Rebirth" against training ...
Finally, Judge Orrick rejected all claims of vicarious copyright infringement, holding that the plaintiffs failed to allege an underlying act of direct infringement that Midjourney and DeviantArt ...
The complaint claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the two Hollywood studios to generate and distribute “endless unauthorized copies” of their characters.
4. This decision does not directly address how to analyze a claim that an image created using a generative AI tool infringes the copyright in a preexisting work.
Though she claims to have "guided" the structure and content of each image, the process described in the Kashtanova Letter makes clear that it was Midjourney—not Kashtanova—that originated the ...