Artificial intelligence initiative Midjourney has made a new attack in the ongoing legal process with three major Hollywood studios. The company demands that studios detail their own artificial intelligence usage practices.

Disney and Universal sued Midjourney last year for copyright infringement. Warner Bros. He joined the process a few months later with similar theses.

Discussion of information sharing in the legal process

The studios argue that Midjourney’s rendering models are capable of producing their own characters, such as Bart Simpson and Darth Vader, without permission. Midjourney, on the other hand, argues that training models on copyrighted characters should be considered within the scope of fair use.

The current legal dispute centers on the paperwork studios must submit during the discovery process. A judge had ruled that studios should only provide information about the artificial intelligence applications they use in consumer-facing content.

Midjourney argues that this limitation gives studios the right to choose documents that are in their favor. The company demands that the decision be overturned, stating that this situation weakens its own defense mechanism.

The initiative argues that studios may be doing the same processes they are suing themselves for behind closed doors. Midjourney questions whether studios use artificial intelligence models to create storyboards during movie or TV series development processes.

He states that such use may prove that training models with royalty-free content is a habit in the industry. In addition, the company wants all the commands used by the studios on Midjourney and the outputs obtained to be disclosed.

Studios’ defense and defense

The studios’ lead lawyer, David Singer, describes Midjourney’s demands as an expedition. Singer states that the studios have no intention of stopping artificial intelligence technology.

The lawyer emphasizes that their main demand is that Midjourney stop copying cinema and TV series content. Studios object to the unauthorized creation and distribution of their famous characters as derivative works.

Midjourney, on the other hand, continues to argue that the documents hidden by the studios are such that they refute their arguments. This data sharing debate between the parties seems to determine the legal consequences regarding artificial intelligence and copyrights.

How do you think studios’ disclosure of their artificial intelligence usage details will affect the course of this copyright case?