Disney sues Midjourney

[MoonSong]

Bruh, that's a stretch too far.

You can either say that the AI is generating the copyrighted image, in which case it is liable for the infringement, or you can say that it does in conjunction with another (like an artist under work for hire) ... in which case it's the person who provided the prompt AND the AI (the company).


I get that people like to spin legal fantasies, but the idea that, if an image is infringing, it just came from nowhere doesn't hold water.

Put more simply- are you making an argument based on any actual law, or based on what you wish to be true? There is a difference.

Also with a Xerox, as well as stuff like a CD-Burner, the company is only providing the means to produce a copy, but the material copied is provided by the user. In the cases of Gen-AI, the system itself has the information to produce the infringing copy, which means it is storing some form of the original content within itself. It has to be told to do it, but the user doesn't need to procure an original, everything is already there.