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Disney and Universal sue AI image generator Midjourney

Nathan Jolly

June 12, 2025 9:35

Disney and Universal are suing popular AI image generation platform Midjourney, claiming it infringes on the copyright of a number of well-loved characters.

Midjourney is an AI-driven program that creates images from typed prompts. The suit, filed in Los Angeles on Wednesday, claims Midjourney scraped the content libraries of both Disney and Universal in order to train its service to create “innumerable” copyright-breaching images.

(Midjourney)

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Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.

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