{"id":200883,"date":"2025-09-05T00:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200883\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:14:11","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-sues-midjourney-ai-for-copying-its-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200883\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney AI for copying its characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup \u201cbrazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,\u201d as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. In the lawsuit<\/a>, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney generated \u201ccountless\u201d infringing images and videos of its copyrighted characters, including Superman, Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo, and more.<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. Discovery accuses Midjourney of reproducing, displaying, and distributing \u201cunauthorized derivatives\u201d of its intellectual property through its AI image and video generation tools. Throughout the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery shares several examples of how Midjourney\u2019s AI tools seem to have generated images of copyrighted characters, like Wonder Woman, Tweety, the Power Puff Girls, and even Rick and Morty in response to prompts asking to see the characters in certain situations.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Warner Bros. Discover claims that Midjourney will generate infringing images even if prompts don\u2019t mention a specific character. For instance, Midjourney allegedly generated downloadable images of Superman, Batman, and Flash after receiving the prompt, \u201cclassic comic book superhero battle.\u201d Midjourney is facing a similar copyright lawsuit<\/a> from Disney and Universal, which called the company\u2019s AI image generator a \u201cvirtual vending machine\u201d that generates \u201cendless authorized copies\u201d of their work.<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. Discovery claims Midjourney is aware of the \u201cbreathtaking scope of its piracy and copyright infringement\u201d but refuses to protect copyright holders.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is hard to imagine copyright infringement that is any more willful than what Midjourney is doing here,\u201d the lawsuit states. \u201cMidjourney is purposefully exploiting Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s valuable intellectual property to attract subscribers to Midjourney, and it is profiting by providing subscribers with endless copies and derivatives of Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s Copyrighted Works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney for damages related to the alleged copyright infringement, and is asking the court to block Midjourney from copying, displaying, or distributing its intellectual property, as well as to stop the company from offering AI tools without copyright protection measures. Midjourney didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup \u201cbrazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[691,12131,171,1020,3228,50,153,20330,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-200883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-copyright","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-film","12":"tag-law","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-policy","15":"tag-tv-shows","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115148807634109779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}