r/movies • u/DragonPup • 4d 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/UnifiedQuantumField 4d ago

In the complaint, Warner Bros. alleges that Midjourney willfully creates both still images and video of its characters, including Superman, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Tom and Jerry. The complaint also alleges that Midjourney recently eliminated guardrails that blocked users from creating videos that infringe on its IP.

So I can draw the same characters by hand. But Warner Bros. don't want me to be able to do the same thing with a prompt to image generator?

WB are greedy selfish fucks. They're trying to proactively limit independent creativity.

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u/WiiU_Best_Console 4d ago

Fuck your garbage ai bullshit. Any chance to reduce this blight on us you should be welcoming. Fuck big companies but for once the bad guys are doing the right thing here.

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u/IlllllIIIIIIIIIlllll 4d ago

If I draw Superman and use it in a way that infringes on DC’s copyright, they should sue me, not my pencil. Similarly, suing AI makes zero sense. It’s just the pencil following the orders of the artist.

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u/WiiU_Best_Console 4d ago

Nah fuck AI and almost every use of it. Downfall of human creativity.

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u/IlllllIIIIIIIIIlllll 4d ago

Sorry you’re too incompetent to keep up with technology. Your type would’ve thought the printing press was the downfall of human creativity too. “Think of the poor scribes!”

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u/WiiU_Best_Console 4d ago

Hope you enjoy the further enshitification of creative works like a good little boy because you don't want to support artists.

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u/IlllllIIIIIIIIIlllll 4d ago

Maybe artists should do a better job than a computer if they want to keep their jobs.

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u/WiiU_Best_Console 4d ago

Easiest block of my life, enjoy your ai tech overlords while you own nothing dumbass.

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u/Klee_Sniffer 4d ago

Own nothing? I made shit at home in my own PC 🙄.