Disney and Universal A lawsuit was filed against Midjourney, claiming that San Francisco is based in San Francisco Start AI Image image It is a “bottom hole of plagiarism” that generates “unauthorized copies of” endless “from the work of studios. There is already Dozens of copyright cases Against artificial intelligence companies that pass through the American Courts system – including artists, the collective lawsuit, the visual artists brought Against Midjorney In 2023 – but this is the first time that the leading Hollywood studios have jumped in the battle.
The complaint includes dozens of images that show how Midjourney can evoke images of intellectual property. One of the pictures depicted Yuda from the stars that carry a light patient, which she says was made by entering the claim “Yoda with Lightsaber, Imax”. Another explains that the writing of “Boss Baby” as a claim that resulted in a picture of a moving child in an evening that is closely similar to the protagonist Chief privilege.
“This is a very important development.” Most of the artificial intelligence companies that face lawsuits have argued that they are protected by the doctrine of “fair use”, which allows the use of public copyrights in certain circumstances; one of the main questions posed by the courts is whether the new work is “transformed” or adds meaning or message New, when making a fair use decision.
Matthew Sag, a professor of law and artificial intelligence at Emori University, believes that Medjorn will have difficulty in providing the issue of fair use of defendants in artificial intelligence.
“The reason is that it is different that Disney attacks directly the outcome of the model. It not only uses some examples chosen for cherry to prove that the model has been trained in his works,” he says. “It will be very difficult for a court or a jury to accept that it is moderate to take 1000 photos of Drath Vader and use them to produce more pictures of Darath Vader.
The lawsuit claims that Disney and Universal asked Midjourney “adopting technological measures” to prevent her photo generators from producing violating materials, but the company “ignored” its demands. In addition, it is claimed that the “Midjourney” copy of the work of Universal and Disney during the training process, which “necessarily included creating more copies of the materials.” Midjourney did not immediately respond to the suspension requests.
“We are optimistic about the promise of artificial intelligence technology and optimism about how to use it responsibly as a tool to increase human creativity,” said Disney Hurasio Guterres. “But piracy is piracy, and the fact that AI does not make it less violating.”
Midjourney, like many of the tweeted artificial intelligence companies, trained their tools by scraping the Internet to create large data collections of images, instead of searching for specific licenses. In 2022 interview With Forbes, CEO David Hones discussed the operation publicly. “It is just a large internet for the Internet. We use the open data sets that are published and trained through that,” he said. “There is not really a way to get a hundred million pictures and know where it came from. It will be great that the pictures have included the copyright owner or something like that. But this is not anything; there is no record.”
