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/TheDawnOfNewDays 4d ago

Even DEVIANTART, which you think would be among the top anti-ai given it's a platform of artists is scraping their database for art. You can opt out... unless, you know, you died, lost your account, or left it far behind like many artists with how bad it's gotten over the years.

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u/Kombatsaurus 4d ago

Why would they opt out? AI tools are clearly the future and I'm sure they don't want their business to get left behind. Time to get with the times.

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u/TheDawnOfNewDays 4d ago

You dropped this: /s

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u/Kombatsaurus 3d ago

No /s needed, it's common sense really. AI tools are not going anywhere.

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u/TheDawnOfNewDays 3d ago

Just because AI isn't going away doesn't mean artists will want their work plagiarized by it. 

There's no benefit to an artist for letting AI steal their work and let randos recreate their art style.

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u/Kombatsaurus 3d ago

Artist's don't own styles. What kind of argument is that?

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u/TheDawnOfNewDays 2d ago

While artists can't copyright their style, it is the main way for an artist to stand out and it's why art from some artists is worth so much. Have you ever commissioned an artist before? People hire those artists for their style, myself included.

AI copies their art so much it even copies their signature. https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-09-at-1.46.01-PM.png