"Disney, Universal (Comcast), and Warner Bros Discovery have jointly filed a lawsuit against China-based AI company MiniMax, claiming its Hailuo AI service uses copyrighted characters without authorization. The complaint, submitted in a California district court, alleges that MiniMax generated images and videos of well-known characters including Darth Vader, Minions, and Wonder Woman, using them to promote its subscription-based AI service."
"According to the lawsuit, Hailuo AI allows subscribers to produce downloadable images and videos from simple text prompts. The studios assert that the company presented the service as a "Hollywood studio in your pocket," effectively using established copyrighted characters to market its platform. The complaint emphasizes that MiniMax ignored multiple requests to mitigate infringement, suggesting that the company treated these characters as its own rather than respecting U.S. copyright protections."
Disney, Universal (Comcast), and Warner Bros Discovery filed a complaint in a California district court alleging that MiniMax's Hailuo AI generated and distributed images and videos of copyrighted characters, including Darth Vader, the Minions, and Wonder Woman, without authorization. Hailuo AI reportedly permits subscribers to create downloadable content from simple text prompts and was marketed as a "Hollywood studio in your pocket." The studios allege MiniMax failed to implement safeguards, ignored multiple requests to mitigate infringement, and commercially exploited the characters. The studios seek monetary damages, disgorgement of alleged profits, and an injunction to halt further unauthorized use, echoing prior suits against other AI firms.
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