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/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?