US EditionDisney, Universal, Warner Bros. Discovery sue China's MiniMax for copyright infringement
The studios accuse MiniMax of willful copyright violations by using iconic characters without authorization, seeking damages up to $150,000 per infringed work and an injunction to stop further infringement.
- Walt Disney, Comcast’s Universal, and Warner Bros Discovery filed a copyright lawsuit against MiniMax, claiming its Hailuo AI service used characters from the studios' intellectual property without permission.
- The lawsuit states MiniMax marketed Hailuo AI as a 'Hollywood studio in your pocket' and ignored requests to prevent copyright infringement.
- The studios seek a court order to halt the alleged infringement and stop MiniMax from operating the Hailuo AI service without copyright protections.
- MiniMax is targeting a valuation of over $4 billion and serves over 157 million users globally, according to its website.
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Hollywood studio competitors unite to sue Chinese AI company
Darth Vader, Wonder Woman and the Minions all share a common grievance: they’re all being recreated without permission by a Chinese AI company. So say the Hollywood studios that sued the Shanghai-based MiniMax for swiping its content. Filed in a California federal court on Tuesday, the suit is the latest in a slew of copyright cases against artificial intelligence companies. Though some of these film studios are competitors, they’ve joined forc…
Hollywood is suing yet another AI company. But there may be a better way to solve copyright conflicts
mo jiaming/UnsplashThis week Disney, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros Discovery jointly sued MiniMax, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, over alleged copyright infringement. The three Hollywood media giants allege MiniMax (which operates Hailuo AI and is reportedly valued at US$4 billion) engaged in mass copyright infringement of characters such as Darth Vader and Mickey Mouse by scraping vast amounts of copyrighted data to train …
Hollywood studio giants sue Chinese AI firm over copyright infringement
Top Hollywood studios filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Chinese artificial intelligence company MiniMax, alleging massive copyright infringement. Hollywood sign. Photo: Paul Deetman, via Pexels. Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Universal Pictures accuse MiniMax of building what they call a “bootlegging business model” that systematically copies their most valuable copyrighted characters to train its AI system, then profits by generating …
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