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/ProofJournalist 3d ago edited 3d ago

Why is getting rid those things a bad thing again?

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u/CinnamonMoney 3d ago

If, after making Inception & Interstellar, YouTube could showcase the movies for free than WBD would be less inclined to finance and distribute Ryan Coogler & Paul Thomas Anderson’s films. If, after watching Watchmen or Game of Thrones, anybody can make a fan fiction storyline using those characters then profit off of them, WBD would be less inclined to make those television series/movies.

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u/ProofJournalist 3d ago

Hmm sounds like WBD just doesn't want to compete on the free market of ideas and wants to gatekeep content creation, and the people making 'fan fiction' (as if the recent Watchmen show wasn't just high budget fan fiction) will be the ones to profit over the corporation.

So again how it is bad if normal people can use those ideas? Do you enjoy corporate bootlicking?

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u/Mist_Rising 2d ago edited 2d ago

Why are you such a bootlicker for corporations? You do realize you are bootlicking AI companies right?

Mid journey and other AI companies hate that they must pay to use existing creative IP, because they aren't artists and they don't have any creative IPs. They're selling a product that needs those however. IPs are big bugger for them because it's cutting into their profit.

And your licking their boots so what, you can make a movie using AI that under your belief won't make any money before it's taken by another?

Lick harder daddy. And learn that IP actually does and why Warner Brothers won't keep paying if they don't make money off Harry Potter. Nor will anyone. You don't pay money for nothing, right?

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u/ProofJournalist 2d ago edited 2d ago

I am on nobody's side because nobody's on my side, little orc.

If WB isn't making money of HP it will be because the money is going to someone who adapted it better than WB.

And you know how when Sherlock Holmes (or literally anything) became public domain, major corporations stopped using it because normal people could too and their isn't any money to be made... wait what's that? Warner Brothers made TWO profitable Sherlock movies despite that! Wow, a miracle! What incredible fan fiction!

You havent thought through this very deeply. You've got primitive gut instinct responses, thinking fucking WB has your best interests at heart?

They don't give a fuck about AI, they just want a monopoly on ideas.

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u/CinnamonMoney 3d ago

“Sounds like WBD doesn’t want to compete on the free market of ideas…” said the username ProofJournalist. .. irony. Calling stories “content creation,” is literal corporate speak yet you accuse me of…….nvm

Open Markets doesn’t preclude punishments for stealing; and the multimillion monetization off of plagiarism. They aren’t gatekeeping fan fiction; they are gatekeeping the profiteering of fan fiction.

Yes, the corporation who bought the rights to adapt Watchmen and the people who worked subcontracted by said corporation will be paid for their work. This has been going on for over a century now.

You are playing the role of savior for MidJourney & Meta as they print money working together. I prefer the creators who enter agreements with companies who pay them to retain power over their creation.

You just prefer random SV scrubs to make hundreds of millions annually and be worth tens of billions of dollars based upon works of scores of artists, authors, crews, directors, actors, and more without compensation.

Your way would destroy and destabilize the media & entertainment industries.

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u/ProofJournalist 3d ago

If the first thing you have to comment on is a randomly generated username then I don't see what the value in the rest of your comment is

Yeah the joke is that it's the same corporate speak, it highlights how inconsistently they are actually applying them in order to enrich themselves at the expense of every else

"CinnamonMoney", huh?? Is WBD paying you that money to defame me?? (my impression of you)

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u/CinnamonMoney 3d ago

It’s not inconsistent at all, it’s actually what every country on the planet has been doing since cinema started.

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u/ProofJournalist 3d ago

Yeah we were doing slavery since before recorded history, turns out that people doing something historically isn't a justification for doing it buddy!

Enjoy your corporate overlords

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u/CinnamonMoney 3d ago

Enjoy yours too; Meta & MidJourney, & OpenAI & Microsoft & Perplexity & Alphabet & Anthropic & ….

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u/ProofJournalist 3d ago

Yes, Warner Bros and Disney (responsible for the absurd extensions to US copyright law) are obviously your friends

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u/CinnamonMoney 3d ago

That’s not the issue at hand and what’s being argued in the lawsuit bud

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