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Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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I don't really understand this. What's the difference if I watch a Disney movie and make pictures? Midjourney isn't selling the pictures, I think that's where it gets to be illegal.
If my printer has the capacity to print what I created and it's a copyrighted thing then do they sue Epson or me? It's just taking the work out of being artistic, but I don't see how it's different than me making the image myself as long as I don't sell it.
I guess it comes down to whether it's legal to train image generation models on copyrighted material. Midjourney etc can't produce a very accurate image of copyrighted characters if those characters aren't in the training set.