Disney and Universal joined forces in a lawsuit against artificial intelligence image creator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement. It is the first AI copyright lawsuit from Hollywood giants.

Disney and Universal, whose entertainment empires include Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel and Despicable Me, sued Midjourney, claiming it wrongfully trained its image-generating AI models on the studios ...

Who gets to control what we do with Star Wars or any other studio creativity is the question at the heart of Disney's Midjourney lawsuit Tristan Fewings/Getty Images And so it begins … ...

Disney has filed an AI lawsuit that could shift the future of entertainment By Tatum Hunter and Will Oremus The Washington Post,Updated June 11, 2025, 9:37 p.m.

Midjourney obtained copies of Disney’s Star Wars, Minions, and other characters through unauthorized libraries containing works from two Hollywood studios, according to the complaint.

Disney's own Lucasfilm recently left observers stunned by a jawdroppingly bad experimental AI Star Wars film, which it presented as the future of VFX.

The companies’ lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Los Angeles, CA, includes examples of alleged infringements featuring characters from Marvel, “Star Wars,” Disney’s “Frozen ...

Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney for copyright infringement FILE - People visit the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., April 18, 2022.

Disney and NBCUniversal are the first Hollywood players to take a shot across the bow of a generative AI company that they claim has stolen their copyrighted characters. Disney and NBCU filed a ...