Midjourney in agitation. If it is celebrated for its particularly impressive generation, this is now accused of copyright violation. Several important film studies have already filed a complaint, including NBCuniversal and Walt Disney Company.
Today, it is another media giant that is added to the list: Warner Bros Discovery. Behind this name hides the Warner Bros studies (Million Dollar Baby, Infiltrates, Spotlight…), DC (Batman, Superman…) or WB Television (Enchanted, Dawson…), HBO (Sex & The City, Game of Thrones) and the Harry Potter saga.
A “flagrant violation” of copyright
Warner explains in his complaint that Midjourney allows the generation and distribution of falsified images and videos of his various intellectual properties, including his superheroes. Therefore, the AI would have trained happily in its franchises, without any prior agreement.
The film study also offers several examples, and it is very difficult not to see the evidence: “It is difficult to imagine a more voluntary copyright violation than that produced by Midjourney,” explains the judicial document. “Midjourney is broken and deliberately in the copyright of protected works.”
According to Warner, Midjourney, however, has tools to avoid the generation of images subject to copyright, and even goes further by adding that the startup behind this generative AI would have deliberately allowed its subscribed customers to go beyond these limitations.
Like Disney and Universal, Warner, therefore, states that Midjourney stops generating content that belongs to their licenses, not forgetting to request a good amount of damage.
Source: BFM TV
