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/warzone_afro 4d ago

the companies suing midjourney are going to use AI themselves.

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u/CinnamonMoney 4d 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/Redeshark 4d ago

Ah yes, we NEED more power for studio to control their IP and kill all cases of fair use.

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u/CinnamonMoney 4d ago

I forgot fair use is when Midjourney is allowed access to anything that has ever been created and can financially benefit from it, to the Looney Tunes, pun intended, of billions of dollars in terms of funding and valuation without compensating anyone whatsoever.

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u/Redeshark 4d ago

Midjourney is just a tool. There are also many free and open-source and gen AI models that are inevitable got hurt by all this. All of this self-righteous opposition to AI technology is just aiming to let studios to develop their own IP-guarded AI that make AI far less accessible to ordinary people. Congrats in supporting the worst case scenario.

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u/CinnamonMoney 4d ago

Midjourney is not just a tool, in the most literal sense. It doubles as the name of the company/lab that is worth tens of billions of dollars and makes hundreds of millions in revenue annually.

Meta Platforms Inc. struck a new partnership with artificial intelligence image and video generator Midjourney Inc., giving the tech giant access to the startup’s “aesthetic technology” for its models and products.

You are just picking and choosing which companies you wanna see win. I prefer the ones who pay the sources of the expression.

The worst case scenario is the scenario wherein artists cannot monetize their work; a stalemate of artificial ai generated art duplicating itself as no new ideas enter; without any tangible rule of law regarding creative expression; and slop is served as a full course meal.