Disney and Universal brought the first main action AI for copyright in Hollywood against Midjourney startup, which generates an image that generates AI.

In the 110 -page complaint filed at the US District Court in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Disney and Universal accuse Midjourney of copying the famous figures of their copyrights. Film studios report that they are to “stop” the letters to the Midjourney Council to ask the startup to stop generating material representing characters developed by studies. Midjourney reportedly ignored his requests.

“Midjourney, which has attractive millions of subscribers and earned $ 300 million last year, is focused on the bottom of the owl,” says Disney and Universal.

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Some of the Disney characters protected by copyright include Darth Vader of “Star Wars”, Elsa from “From”, “and Homer Simpson of” The Simpsons “, while the characters from the Universal include the” Despicable Me “, after” Kung Fu Panda “and Hiccup from” How to Train Your Dragon.

According to court proceedings, only Disney and Universal can allow these characters to complicate and build a business around them. However, Midjourney allegedly allowed his subscribers to generate pictures of characters like Darth Vader, contrary to copyright laws.

Disney and Universal include several examples in complaints about AI-general pictures from Midjourney with characters from “Cars”, “Shrek” and other films.

Disney and Universal demand the jury trial, call Midjourney’s actions “textbook violations of copyright”, and sends that the launch of AI “threatens to increase the incentives on the subsoil of the US copyright law”.

“Midjourney is the chief rider of copyright and a bottomless pit of plagiarism,” says Disney and Universal.

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Midjourney is an AI text generator on a picture that spews images in a few seconds based on you that is fast. SALS Monthly remuneration ranging from $ 10 per month for basic plan to $ 120 per month for mega signing. The startup was founded in 2021 and has since generated $ 50 million in 2022 and $ 300 million in 2024.

Midjourney notes on its website that it is a “small self -informed team” with “11 full -time employees”.

While Disney and Universal’s action against Midjourney is the first major Hollywood court against the launch of AI, AI pioneering case was filed last week. Reddit became the first main technology company to sue the startup AI and claimed that in a complaint that Anthropic $ 61.5 billion used a website for training without permission.

Copyright cases AI can also expsse. GETTE CEO Images Craig Peters said last month that Getty had spent millions of dollars in the years of long legal struggle with the stability of the AI ​​Image AI.

Getty claimed that AI stability illegally scratched more than 12 million media protected from her website to train the IT AI generator. Getty launched the following in January 2023; The case is set at the initial attempt on 9 June.