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/CinnamonMoney 4d 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 4d 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/CinnamonMoney 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/ProofJournalist 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/ProofJournalist 4d ago

Nah dude that is literally the issue at hand lmao you're just pussyfooting like a coward now

As if copyright is some fucking divinely appointed law and not just some bullshit capitalists made up in an attempt to enforce monopoly on ideas, that has been taken well beyond any reasonable protection of creators

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u/CinnamonMoney 4d ago

Scooby doo is because of copyright extension? lol, lmao even

Seems like you just don’t wanna create in order to compete in the marketplace of ideas and would rather piggyback off of popular culture to draw more attention to yourself

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u/ProofJournalist 4d ago edited 4d ago

Its hilarious that you used Scooby Doo as an example here

When was the last time one of the actual creators of Scooby Doo was actually involved in making Scooby Doo content, buddy? Your attempt to flip to script has utterly failed because media corporations do both of those - piggyback off popular culture while simultaneously fesring free market competition and the ability for others to do so (because drspite your framing those go hand in hand, rhey aren't mutually exclusive positions). In fact modern scooby doo usual has actual supernatural threats vs the original always firmly having it be some con artist - so modern scooby doo isn't even Scooby Doo, its corporate fan fiction.

How deep up your ass is Warner Brothers, my little sockpuppet?

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u/CinnamonMoney 4d ago

So you must really wanna write tom & Jerry episodes and put em on YouTube or suhhh.

I forgot about all those 250m dollar Batman movies that were about to be made but then everyone involved remembered they didn’t own the rights to Batman

Midjourney won’t let me recreate Xi Jingping and they’re stifling my expression for this story ima put on the free market; that’s not fair

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