• Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
  • The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
  • The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
  • tabular@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Remember when stealing on sea was piracy? Always has been.

    Copyright infringement is different.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      18 days ago

      Yes. Piracy in the sense of stealing from ships in international waters is different from piracy in the sense of copyright infringement. Thanks for that.