“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney
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schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 09:27 zuletzt editiert von pro@programming.dev 6. Dez. 2025, 11:28
- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
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- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 09:49 zuletzt editiert vonoooooo do openAI next!
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- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 10:21 zuletzt editiert von"Piracy" isn't piracy.
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- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 10:30 zuletzt editiert vonThe biggest pirates in the world should know.
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- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 10:34 zuletzt editiert von tabular@lemmy.world 6. Dez. 2025, 12:34Remember when stealing on sea was piracy? Always has been.
Copyright infringement is different.
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- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 10:38 zuletzt editiert vonA copy is not theft.
Intellectual property is thought monopoly. See Disco Elysium for a particularly sad case of it.
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A copy is not theft.
Intellectual property is thought monopoly. See Disco Elysium for a particularly sad case of it.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 10:49 zuletzt editiert vonDo you mean play disco Elysium or is there some drama associated with it?
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- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 11:05 zuletzt editiert vonI dunno were I stand on this one. I can see Disneys argument and agree with it on first glance, but at the same time, is the artists doing fan art infringing copyright then?
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Do you mean play disco Elysium or is there some drama associated with it?
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 11:12 zuletzt editiert von webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6. Dez. 2025, 13:14Drama. A business partner of the creators used an illegal loophole to obtain a majority stake of the company and then fired the actual creators because they where considered to volatile.
The universe of Disco Elysium is Kurvitz paracosm which he has been creating since his teens. Its a part of their identity that they are now barred from expressing.
Its a bit like if you told Tolkien halfway trough writing lotr that he is fired as the author and can never write anything about middle earth again.
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- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 11:31 zuletzt editiert vonrequests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
good luck proving and putting an accurate number to that perceived 'damage'?
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Do you mean play disco Elysium or is there some drama associated with it?
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 11:59 zuletzt editiert vonYou should totally play the game, but make sure that you pirate it so your money doesn't go to the thief who stole the rights from the creators.
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I dunno were I stand on this one. I can see Disneys argument and agree with it on first glance, but at the same time, is the artists doing fan art infringing copyright then?
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 12:51 zuletzt editiert von kirp123@lemmy.world 6. Dez. 2025, 14:52Artists doing fan art are infringing copyright, yes. If the fan art meets the fair use criteria then they are not Infringing.
Companies usually overlook the infringement from fan artists because it's free advertising and the public backlash is not worth going after lone artists. They usually will go after fan art of people that profit off it.
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Artists doing fan art are infringing copyright, yes. If the fan art meets the fair use criteria then they are not Infringing.
Companies usually overlook the infringement from fan artists because it's free advertising and the public backlash is not worth going after lone artists. They usually will go after fan art of people that profit off it.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 13:00 zuletzt editiert vonYes I under that, but is Midjourney profiting off these characters? Ie are people paying for these services just so they can create images of these specific characters ? I think that’s the question that needs to be answered here.
I mean you’re not paying piecemeal as you would for an artist to create your commission of Shrek getting railed by Donkey, you pay for the service which in turns creates anything you tell it to.
It’s like I’m still not convinced that training AI with copyrighted material is infringement, because in my mind is not any different than me seeing Arthas when I was kid, thinking he was cool as fuck and then deciding to make my own OC inspired by him. Was I infringing on Blizzard’s copyrighted character for taking inspiration from its design? Was Mike Pondsmith infringing on William Gibson’s copyright when he invented Cyberpunk?
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requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
good luck proving and putting an accurate number to that perceived 'damage'?
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 13:02 zuletzt editiert vonEasy, ten gajillion dollars. Payable in stock.
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- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 13:02 zuletzt editiert vonRemoves sunglasses ..."Let them fight"
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You should totally play the game, but make sure that you pirate it so your money doesn't go to the thief who stole the rights from the creators.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 13:08 zuletzt editiert vonWould it not then be better to buy a shady key to financially hurt the company?
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- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 13:16 zuletzt editiert vonThe worst person you know just made a great point
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A copy is not theft.
Intellectual property is thought monopoly. See Disco Elysium for a particularly sad case of it.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 13:20 zuletzt editiert vonBut it would be a copyright infringement.
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Yes I under that, but is Midjourney profiting off these characters? Ie are people paying for these services just so they can create images of these specific characters ? I think that’s the question that needs to be answered here.
I mean you’re not paying piecemeal as you would for an artist to create your commission of Shrek getting railed by Donkey, you pay for the service which in turns creates anything you tell it to.
It’s like I’m still not convinced that training AI with copyrighted material is infringement, because in my mind is not any different than me seeing Arthas when I was kid, thinking he was cool as fuck and then deciding to make my own OC inspired by him. Was I infringing on Blizzard’s copyrighted character for taking inspiration from its design? Was Mike Pondsmith infringing on William Gibson’s copyright when he invented Cyberpunk?
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 14:15 zuletzt editiert vonI mean if you paid for a copy of wc3 to find out about Arthas then no, if you downloaded the game illegally then yes. These companies are often torrenting content just like we would just instead of consuming it directly they’re feeding it to their slop printers to train them. I’m all for piracy, including in this context, but if copyright is a going to be a thing and going to be enforced against individuals pirating treats to consume then it sure as shit should be enforced against the corporations pirating huge amounts of content to train their energy sucking crap factories lol
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- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
schrieb am 12. Juni 2025, 14:17 zuletzt editiert von exlisper@lemmy.curiana.net 6. Dez. 2025, 16:49Too big to fail!
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