Three months after Disney and Universal sued AI image generator Midjourney for copyright infringement, Warner Bros Discovery has joined the fight. The media giant has launched its own lawsuit against Midjourney, accusing it of "brazenly dispens[ing] Warner Bros Discovery's intellectual property as if it were its own."
Midjourney is a generative AI service that produces images based on text prompts: Tell it what you want and it'll spit something out. The problem, as we noted when Disney and Universal filed their suit in June, is that there are no copyright guardrails. Midjourney is happy to churn out images that are direct lifts of copyrighted material—like this one, for instance, is clearly Woody from Toy Story, even though Midjourney has absolutely no legal right to be producing images of Woody from Toy Story.
