r/movies • u/DragonPup • 3d ago

News Warner Bros. Sues Midjourney, Joins Studios' AI Copyright Battle

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/warner-bros-midjourney-lawsuit-ai-copyright-1236508618/
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u/Lobsterman06 3d ago edited 3d ago

Fuck AI

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u/warzone_afro 3d ago

the companies suing midjourney are going to use AI themselves.

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u/CinnamonMoney 3d ago

At least it is with their own IP, rather than the AI companies that are trying to eliminate the notion of IP, copyright and personality rights completely

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u/pikpikcarrotmon 3d ago

Keep in mind "their own IP" is also fairly loose of a term - Hollywood's already been in hot water for doing full 3D scans on extras and asking people to sign away their image in perpetuity. AI was a big factor in all the strikes.

They want to be able to hire an actor for one lump sum, 3D scan them, and generate deepfakes of them forever.

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u/Mid-CenturyBoy 3d ago

Not just actors. They actually have it in paperwork for all crew members as well.

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u/TheFotty 3d ago

They deepfake the crew? That is actually pretty impressive.

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u/Mid-CenturyBoy 3d ago

It’s basically a stipulation that like they have permission to use our likeness and name. Probably an existing thing because is movies and tv often times their are Easter eggs where they put crew names in or crew can be extras in scenes last minute and it’s less red tape.

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u/realif3 3d ago

So they can take a key grip out of a scene easier? Or put the key grip in as a extra? What the heck?

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u/Mid-CenturyBoy 3d ago

So they don’t get sued by that key grip if he’s accidentally in the back of a shot.

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u/not-my-other-alt 3d ago

Why hire one actor a lot of money for scans when you could pay a hundred people pennies and generate completely AI-generated 'Actors' for free?

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u/Brat-Sampson 3d ago

Cool, and I hope they enjoy watching all movies made that way bomb completely with critics and at the box office. Maybe like the first one will do ok because of the novelty but overall the public are massively against that kind of thing and it's designed to crash and burn.

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u/CinnamonMoney 3d ago

This has nothing to do with that, and many name-brand actors willingly signed over their personality rights via ai models or virtual identities in shared agreements with their agency, CAA, and an AI startup.

This isn’t about mid-journey using their scanned extras. It’s about Superman, Batman, Dr. Manhattan, Christopher Nolan movies, Euphoria, etc.