Disney And NBCUniversal Sue AI Company Midjourney For Copyright Infringement

The Walt Disney Co. and NBCUniversal sued AI company Midjourney on Wednesday, alleging that its image-generating service “functions as a virtual vending machine” that generates “endless unauthorized copies” of copyrighted works. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, is the first major legal action that studios have taken against an AI company. Axios first reported on the lawsuit. The lawsuit states, “By helping itself to Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works, and then distributing images (and s ...