Summary
Disney Enterprises, Inc. and 11 other plaintiffs including Universal Studios, Warner Bros., and others sued Minimax, Hailuo AI, and related entities alleging direct and secondary copyright infringement by training AI models on plaintiffs' copyrighted works and enabling infringing image and video generation.[2][3][5] The case invokes the U.S. Copyright Act in the Central District of California (case 2:25-cv-08768, filed September 16, 2025, before Judge Stanley Blumenfeld), with defendant Nanoble moving to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, failure to state a claim, extraterritoriality issues, and arguments that plaintiffs cannot infringe their own copyrights via self-generated outputs.[1][5] Plaintiffs seek unspecified monetary or statutory damages up to $150,000 per willful infring
Case details
- Court
- CDCA
- Docket number
- 2:25-cv-08768
- Filed
- Sep 16, 2025
- Status
- Active
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