Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed
www.reuters.com/business/med... Megan Farokhmanesh / @megannicolett : “bottomless pit of plagiarism” has a real ring to it www.wired.com/story/disney... Jason Read / @jasonread : Both Intellectual Property Owners like Disney and AI companies agree that there will be no new ideas, and that everything going forward will be an endless rehashing of what already exists. They just disagree on who owns or controls it. — www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/ bus... Sam Tung / @stung.art : Whoa, is this a corner turn? Previously I'd thought it was very telling that the music arm of studios were suing GAI companies, but the film arms were not — hedging their bets on GAI's usefulness, IMO. But this suggests a change in attitude! — www.reuters.com/business/med... Kevin Collier / @kevincollier : I did think it was weird that my MidJourney videos kept featuring this oddly familiar character: [embedded post] Mastodon: Kye Fox / @Kye@tech.lgbt : If you find yourself rooting for Disney or Comcast's lawyers then you are in desperate need of a step back to reevaluate the beliefs driving you and what it would mean for the art you want to protect if they win. — Disney's wins have already starved the commons of new ideas for longer than most of us will live. … Baldur Bjarnason / @baldur@toot.cafe : “Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement | Reuters” — https://www.reuters.com/... I mean, we all knew this was going to happen eventually, right? And that they're going to want to make an example of them, right? X: Emad / @emostaque : Some thoughts on the Midjourney lawsuit having spent millions of dollars on lawyers for similar & ensuring we did everything legal & by the book at Stability AI: The case itself is pretty thin on legal grounds based on outputs Inputs will be where real case is, hopefully all done by the book as that's a dangerous one based on jurisdiction/sources (we were super careful there) Puzzling MJ apparently didn't engage with Disney/Universal when they were contacted in December Gary Marcus / @garymarcus : So far in the last few days • Apple reinforced what I have been saying for 30 years • Salesforce's new study on the unreliability of agents further reinforced what I have been saying for years about the limits of reasoning in LLM-based approaches. • Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit based on my work with @rahll (which they cite multiple times), largely following the logic we laid out... Charles H. Rivkin / @charlierivkin : My statement on the copyright infringement lawsuit filed today by @DisneyStudios and @NBCUniversal against Midjourney. [image: “Strong copyright protection is the backbone of our industry. A balanced approach to Al that both protects intellectual property and embraces responsible, human-centered innovation is critical for maintaining America's global leadership in creative industries."] Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia : lol these fucking companies — all of them!! Midjourney is of course not going to fucking abide because they only care about consumer scale to train models. And the studios put FULL LENGTH EPISODES on PUBLIC YouTube channels. Where scraping happens every day. Like...guys...please. Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia : Similar to the Times suing OpenAI, the studios know that they're not going to be able to stop this at scale — this was the EXACT same issue with YouTube circa 2010 — but if they can create precedent for market harm, then they can create precedent for fair payment structures. Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia : Obviously it's theft if they can prove it. But the more shit you put out on public channels — which YouTube protects the copyright holder, of course — the more opportunity for nefarious shit. This is all an offensive defense to set precedent for pay outs ahead of mass adoption. Reid Southen / @rahll : 🔥 It's happening! Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney and they cited mine and @GaryMarcus' work exposing their infringement in their filing. LET'S GO! 🔥 [image] Gary Marcus / @garymarcus : • ...Because basically all the big players are doing the same kinds of things, a single legal case could have vast ripple effects throughout the entire industry. • If a significant court decides that that training-without-licensing in systems that have a tendency to plagiarize is illegal, every company will suddenly be in jeopardy. • The Disney/Universal suit could easily set such a precedent. Gary Marcus / @garymarcus : Bomb drop. 💣 The Disney and Universal lawsuit again Midjourney that @Rahll and I and foretold with our January 2024 @IEEESpectrum research study on visual plagiarism has been filed: [image] LinkedIn: Kate Knibbs : This one is major, and may be very tough for Midjourney to win. As copyright expert Matthew Sag puts it: “Disney directly attacks the output of the model. … Patrick McAndrew : This was only a matter of time. 🙃 Disney and Universal filed a landmark lawsuit against Midjourney, accusing the AI platform of using … Forums: r/theprimeagen : Disney and Universal Sue A.I. 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