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  • 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.worldEnglish
    124·
    9 months ago

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

    Copyright infringement is different.

      • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        I didn’t mean to suggest that. I consider calling copyright infringement “piracy” to be propaganda started by the music industry to push their monetary interests. A derogatory term that conflates it with immoral stealing (and murder). This overstates any harms caused.