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Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement

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for anyone interested in reading the primary sources:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70513159/disney-enterpr...

direct link to the complaint (110 page PDF):

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.97...

pages 25-55 contain a series of screenshots demonstrating Midjourney generating images that pretty clearly infringe on the various copyrights held by the plaintiffs.

Lame. Anyone with compute power at home can make as much copyright-breaking content till the cows come home. Like, castigating MJ is going to do anything meaningful..

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