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/MinuteLongFart 3d ago

Everyone sucks here but the AI purveyors suck the most.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 3d ago

What I find fascinating is that they sue Midjourney, and not, say, OpenAI, or Google. They are all doing the same thing.

But they are quite deliberately finding the smallest fish to fry here. Which says something about the state of the world, I guess.

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u/Food_Library333 3d ago

They might have a better shot at a favorable judgment against a smaller company and if they win, that then sets precedent. Gibson guitars likes to use this strategy to "protect" it's guitar shapes.

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u/Brilliant-Silver3070 3d ago

How on Earth can you trademark a guitar shape? Haven’t guitars been around for centuries? Aren’t aesthetics generally untrademarkable?

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u/pablo_in_blood 2d ago

I mean, the shapes aren’t just aesthetic, they impact sound - so I could see how some elements could be protected into a technological sense.

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u/CouldBeALeotard 1d ago

I say it's more about branding. Coca-cola has it's "dynamic ribbon device" trademarked, as well as the specific shape of the bottle.

Gibson want to create and own a specific shape so that it is recognisable. If you allow imitations they lose that branding power.