{"id":19139,"date":"2025-06-12T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/disney-and-universal-sue-ai-image-creator-midjourney-alleging-copyright-infringement\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:38:07","slug":"disney-and-universal-sue-ai-image-creator-midjourney-alleging-copyright-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/disney-and-universal-sue-ai-image-creator-midjourney-alleging-copyright-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney and Universal sue AI image creator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Studios accuse AI firm of \u2018piracy\u2019 and seek injunction over alleged use of copyrighted characters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/walt-disney-company\">Disney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/universal-pictures\">Universal<\/a> sued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> company on Wednesday, alleging copyright infringement. In their lawsuit, the entertainment giants called Midjourney\u2019s popular AI-powered image generator a \u201cbottomless pit of plagiarism\u201d for its alleged reproductions of the studios\u2019 best-known characters.<\/p>\n<p>The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the two Hollywood studios, making and distributing without permission \u201cinnumerable\u201d copies of their marquee characters such as Darth Vader from Star Wars, Elsa from Frozen, and the Minions from Despicable Me. Midjourney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/11\/disney-universal-ai-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8875ef642b5c5504fd03ac7a12a86c49694abfd6\/259_0_2405_1924\/master\/2405.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=66f5bb13ad2bbf57c548afd9dd36162e\" title=\"Disney and Universal sue AI image creator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement\" \/>Studios accuse AI firm of \u2018piracy\u2019 and seek injunction over alleged use of copyrighted characters<br \/>\nDisney and Universal sued an artificial intelligence company on Wednesday, alleging copyright infringement. In their lawsuit, the entertainment giants called Midjourney\u2019s popular AI-powered image generator a \u201cbottomless pit of plagiarism\u201d for its alleged reproductions of the studios\u2019 best-known characters.<br \/>\nThe suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the two Hollywood studios, making and distributing without permission \u201cinnumerable\u201d copies of their marquee characters such as Darth Vader from Star Wars, Elsa from Frozen, and the Minions from Despicable Me. Midjourney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studios accuse AI firm of \u2018piracy\u2019 and seek injunction over alleged use of copyrighted characters Disney and Universal sued an artificial intelligence company on Wednesday, alleging copyright infringement. In their lawsuit, the entertainment giants called Midjourney\u2019s popular AI-powered image generator a \u201cbottomless pit of plagiarism\u201d for its alleged reproductions of the studios\u2019 best-known characters. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/disney-and-universal-sue-ai-image-creator-midjourney-alleging-copyright-infringement\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disney and Universal sue AI image creator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}