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Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement

by rememberlenny on 6/11/25, 4:30 PM with 2 comments

• by evil-olive on 6/11/25, 5:30 PM

  for anyone interested in reading the primary sources:

  https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70513159/disney-enterpr...

  direct link to the complaint (110 page PDF):

  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.97...

  pages 25-55 contain a series of screenshots demonstrating Midjourney generating images that pretty clearly infringe on the various copyrights held by the plaintiffs.

• by Fairburn on 6/11/25, 10:01 PM

  Lame. Anyone with compute power at home can make as much copyright-breaking content till the cows come home. Like, castigating MJ is going to do anything meaningful..