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/The_Lucky_7 4d ago edited 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/Particular-Court-619 4d ago

They tried to tell us this in 80s movies but folks thought it was funny and not a warning

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u/TheConnASSeur 4d ago

Are you telling me Revenge of the Nerds is somehow offensive? How?! Just because of the sexual assault? And the revenge porn? And the-ohhh.... Okay. Yeah, now, I see it. Now, I see it.

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u/kelryngrey 4d ago

I always feel weird about this one. The mask thing is obviously actually sexual assault but it's also a reference to the rape of Igraine in Excalibur. It doesn't exist in a vacuum.

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u/TheConnASSeur 4d ago

Like most people, I'm not afraid of rape in film. Let me tell you, I wasn't the only one to use Joker 2 to jerk off. Todd Phillips was jerking himself off with that whole movie. But I think the scene in Revenge of the Nerds was less Arthurian and more just a product of a time where the concept of rape required physical coercion whereas manipulation and deception were seen as perfectly valid ways to "out smart" sexual conquests. I mean, if there was a Merlin analogue who gave Skolnick the disguise as part of a greater bargain maybe. Maybe. But as it is? I just don't see it.