Summary
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and affiliates sued Midjourney, Inc. in the Central District of California, alleging direct and secondary copyright infringement from Midjourney's use of thousands of Warner's copyrighted works, including characters like Superman, Batman, Bugs Bunny, and Scooby-Doo, to train its AI models and generate infringing images and videos.[1][2][3] The suit invokes the Copyright Act and follows Disney and Universal's related June 2025 action against Midjourney in the same court, with the latter parties seeking consolidation on September 5, 2025; Midjourney answered raising fair use and other defenses.[1][3] The case highlights Hollywood studios' escalating challenges to AI image and video generators as direct competitors lacking copyright safeguards.[1][2][4]
Case details
- Court
- CDCA
- Docket number
- 2:25-cv-08376
- Filed
- Sep 4, 2025
- Status
- Active
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