"Warner Bros. Entertainment and four other plaintiffs filed their official complaint late last week against artificial intelligence (AI) image generator Midjourney, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The complaint alleged two causes of copyright infringement of characters through its direct and secondary infringement by operating as a commercial subscription service through AI that "brazenly dispenses Warner Bros. Discovery's intellectual property as if it were its own.""
"WBD claimed Midjourney's AI service was "developed using illegal copies of Warner Bros. Discovery's copyrighted works" and allows subscribers to generate "infringing images and videos, and unauthorized derivatives, with every imaginable scene featuring those characters." The plaintiffs alleged that Midjourney's infringement was "systematic, ongoing, and willful." The 87-page complaint included numerous examples of AI-generated images and videos produced by Midjourney in response to prompts such as "classic comic book superhero battle," featuring WBD's copyrighted characters without explicitly naming them,"
Warner Bros. Discovery and four affiliates filed an 87-page federal complaint alleging that Midjourney developed its AI using illegal copies of WBD copyrighted works and that its commercial subscription service enables subscribers to produce infringing images, videos, and unauthorized derivatives of WBD characters. The complaint alleges both direct and secondary infringement, describes Midjourney's conduct as systematic, ongoing, and willful, and accuses Midjourney of making a calculated, profit-driven decision to offer zero protection for copyright owners. The complaint includes numerous AI-generated examples produced from prompts that recreate scenes featuring iconic characters without explicit naming.
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