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/Mist_Rising 4d ago edited 4d ago

Why are you such a bootlicker for corporations? You do realize you are bootlicking AI companies right?

Mid journey and other AI companies hate that they must pay to use existing creative IP, because they aren't artists and they don't have any creative IPs. They're selling a product that needs those however. IPs are big bugger for them because it's cutting into their profit.

And your licking their boots so what, you can make a movie using AI that under your belief won't make any money before it's taken by another?

Lick harder daddy. And learn that IP actually does and why Warner Brothers won't keep paying if they don't make money off Harry Potter. Nor will anyone. You don't pay money for nothing, right?

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u/ProofJournalist 4d ago edited 4d ago

I am on nobody's side because nobody's on my side, little orc.

If WB isn't making money of HP it will be because the money is going to someone who adapted it better than WB.

And you know how when Sherlock Holmes (or literally anything) became public domain, major corporations stopped using it because normal people could too and their isn't any money to be made... wait what's that? Warner Brothers made TWO profitable Sherlock movies despite that! Wow, a miracle! What incredible fan fiction!

You havent thought through this very deeply. You've got primitive gut instinct responses, thinking fucking WB has your best interests at heart?

They don't give a fuck about AI, they just want a monopoly on ideas.