Disney, Universal Challenge Midjourney in Copyright Clash

Entertainment powerhouses Disney and Universal have initiated legal action against artificial intelligence (AI) firm Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement by its image-generating software. This lawsuit follows the AI company’s reported disregard for requests to implement measures preventing the unauthorized use of copyrighted material. In a legal complaint submitted Wednesday in Los Angeles, Disney, and Universal contend that Midjourney has utilized copyrighted character works to train its large language model (LLM) and subsequently distributed images featuring these protected characters. “Midjourney, however, seeks to reap the rewards of Plaintiffs’ creative investment by selling an artificial intelligence (“AI”) image-generating service (“Image Service”) that functions The post Disney, Universal Challenge Midjourney in Copyright Clash first appeared on The Shib Daily source: https://news.shib.io/2025/06/13/disney-universal-challenge-midjourney-in-copyright-clash/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=disney-universal-challenge-midjourney-in-copyright-clash