The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, claims the AI company Midjourney generates images that “blatantly incorporate and copy” the movie studios’ famous characters.

"Piracy is piracy," says Disney's chief legal officer, as the studios aim to show that tools allowing personalized AI slop creations of characters like Darth Vader or Shrek run afoul of their IP.

Disney and Universal are suing AI photo generation company Midjourney, marking the first major legal showdown between Hollywood studios and an artificial intelligence company.

In a landmark case blending innovation and legality, two entertainment behemoths, Disney and Universal, have taken legal action against Midjourney Inc., a company specializing in artificial ...

The battle over the future of AI-generated content escalated on Wednesday as two Hollywood titans sued a fast-growing AI start-up for copyright infringement. Disney and Universal, whose ...

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Disney and Universal sued popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney on Wednesday, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have taken legal action against a maker of ...

Since studios haven’t entered any licensing agreements with AI companies, AI-generated versions of Disney’s Darth Vader and Universal’s Shrek are technically ... human-centered innovation.” ...

With the advancement of AI, it is a national security issue,” Horacio Gutierrez, chief legal officer at the Walt Disney Co., said during a Miami Law Forum appearance. March 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM ...

Author and former head of innovation at Disney Duncan Wardle says everyone can be creative in the right environment. Here’s how. AI is changing the workplace, but there is one area in which it ...

Disney Testing AI That Matches ‘Mood’ of Programming to Ads ... The innovation means leaving broad demographics behind “and buying specific audiences,” Geoffrey Calabrese, ...