Source: United Press International
“Disney and NBCUniversal have joined legal teams in a lawsuit against AI image maker Midjourney over multiple claims of copyright infringement. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in California’s U.S. central district claimed that Midjourney, a generative artificial intelligence startup, utilized and distributed proprietary AI-generated characters from NBCU and Disney productions such as the Simpsons, Star Wars, Toy Story, Shrek and others. It marked the first AI-related infringement lawsuit taken on by a Hollywood giant. … The two plaintiffs claimed that Midjourney’s own website displayed ‘hundreds, if not thousands, of images generated by its Image Service at the request of its subscribers’ they believed infringed on their copyrighted works.” (06/11/25)