{"id":122810,"date":"2025-06-12T05:58:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/12\/get-your-popcorn-ready-disney-universal-sue-ai-firm-for-alleged-copyright-infringement-experts-foresee-tectonic-impact-on-litigation\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T05:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:58:25","slug":"get-your-popcorn-ready-disney-universal-sue-ai-firm-for-alleged-copyright-infringement-experts-foresee-tectonic-impact-on-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/12\/get-your-popcorn-ready-disney-universal-sue-ai-firm-for-alleged-copyright-infringement-experts-foresee-tectonic-impact-on-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Get Your Popcorn Ready:’ Disney, Universal Sue AI Firm for Alleged Copyright Infringement; Experts Foresee ‘Tectonic’ Impact on Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disney and Universal sued AI firm Midjourney in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday, alleging that it violated the Copyright Act. Disney and Universal are represented by Jenner & Block.<\/p>\n

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A federal lawsuit filed by The Walt Disney Co. and Universal City Studios Productions targeting an AI firm and image generator could signal a “tectonic” shift in copyright litigation, experts said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The complaint, filed in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday alleges that the artificial intelligence company Midjourney unlawfully produced “endless unauthorized copies” of copyrighted work through its image-generating service. The lawsuit accuses Midjourney of direct and secondary copyright infringement under the Copyright Act. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disney and Universal sued AI firm Midjourney in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday, alleging that it violated the Copyright Act. Disney and Universal are represented by Jenner & Block. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A federal lawsuit filed by The Walt Disney Co. and Universal City Studios Productions targeting an AI firm and image generator could signal a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/legal-news-lOYMGZ.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}