Warner Bros. sues Midjourney to stop AI knockoffs of Batman, Scooby-Doo

Warner Bros. has filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, a popular AI image generation tool, alleging that the platform is being used to create unauthorized derivatives of its copyrighted characters, such as Batman and Scooby-Doo. The lawsuit claims that Midjourney's AI-generated images infringe on Warner Bros.' intellectual property rights. The case builds on arguments raised in a similar lawsuit filed by Disney and Universal against Stable Diffusion, another AI image generation tool. These entertainment giants argue that the use of their copyrighted characters in AI-generated images without permission constitutes copyright infringement. Warner Bros. is seeking an injunction to prevent Midjourney from generating any images based on its intellectual property. The company also demands that Midjourney remove any existing infringing images from its platform and provide information on the users who created them. The outcome of this lawsuit could have significant implications for the AI art generation industry and the relationship between AI technology and intellectual property rights.