Disney and Universal complaints from Midjarni for copyright violations

Companies Disney And Universal From Midjarni (Midjourney) Complained about characters such as Shrek, Darith Widder (from Star Wars) and Weder (Astronaut Animation of Toy Story). This is the first major legal warfare of Hollywood companies against a means of producing artificial intelligence content.

According to Verj, Disney and Universal, two entertainment giants, filed a complaint at the California Central Federal Court on Wednesday to violate Midjourney. Intellectual property rights They were accused. The complaint of the two companies states that the Midjern AI -based image -based image production tool acts as a “virtual automatic sales machine” that produces unauthorized images based on copyright works.

In part of this petition is:

“Midjourney without spending even a dollar to create these works, using famous Disney and Universal characters and distributing images (and sooner videos) that have been clearly copied of these characters, has become a prominent example of copyright and a clear example of literary robbery.”

Illegal images made by Midjarni

The complaint lists numerous cases in which Midjourney users have only immediately accessed the names of characters such as Darith Widder or minions. The plaintiffs have presented dozens of images as claimed by Midjarni, including characters such as Juda, Wall-E, Dedpole, Ironman, McCain, Aladdin, Spider-Man, Grott, Elsa (from Frozen animation) and Star Wars characters.

Disney and Universal have claimed that Midjourney uses the same images to promote and marketing its tools, and despite repeated warnings by these companies, it has not yet taken action to stop the process. They have also pointed out that some other artificial intelligence content production tools have imposed restrictions by adopting measures such as rejecting some requests and investigating possible copyright violations; But Midjourney does not follow this rule.

One of the major concerns of Disney and Universal is the new Midjarni video production tool that has not yet been released, but is developing. The complaint has stated that the tool can produce and publish videos that uses copyright characters.

Disney and Universal have called for a court to hold a court.