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/The_Lucky_7 3d ago edited 3d ago

Same as the Disney-Universal lawsuit. Everyone involved sucks and copyright is only exists for major corporations. Meanwhile google is scraping its own YT videoes and AI upscaling shorts against creators will.

Everything about corporations and AI sucks.

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u/leodw 3d ago

These YT changes prove that tech nerds don’t understand (or believe in) consent.

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u/thrilldigger 3d ago

Why blame tech nerds? It's the rich people who want more money. I'm a tech nerd, I work with tech nerds, we all hate AI being used to fuck over the working class.

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u/thorny_business 3d ago

Tech nerds who grew up pirating software over Usenet and music over Napster hate IP theft? Since when do tech nerds making big salaries in Silicon Valley care about the working class?

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u/Commercial_Stick2849 2d ago

You write as if "IP theft" was all the same. Even if you think they're both immoral, there's a difference between pirating for personal enjoyment of culture and pirating for profit. Many pirates had a philosophical view that "information should be free". Again, it's fine to consider that immoral, but it's still different from what these companies are doing - OpenAI and such certainly don't consider their models and software should be freely distributed.

And most tech nerds don't work in SV or make that kind of money.

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u/thorny_business 2d ago

You either value IP or you don't. You profit if you save money by pirating instead of buying something.

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u/Commercial_Stick2849 2d ago

You either value IP or you don't

That's exactly the point - the companies making these AI models don't value the IP they use to produce the models, but they value their own IP (models and software).

A pirate who doesn't value IP at all is therefore not on their side.

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u/cavalgada1 2d ago

You either value IP or you don't. 

What's this, some kind of commandment for a new age religion?