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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.
  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Fanfiction and non monetised use is not at all exempt from these laws but rather tolerated by the copyright holder. Something tells me this one wont tolerate if the og creator posts anything and they may know enough background canon to know its them.

    A real irony to the plot of the game is that the business partner wanted to reign in the freedom of the creators. Not impossible they deemed it to political.

    I am not sure about those games you mentioning but its possible they are tolerated because a combination of plausible deniability (wizard uk boarding school isnt that orginal) and not wanting it to gain any more publicity. Disney did the same thing ignoring Micky mouse porn.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      6 days ago

      Fanfiction and non monetised use is not at all exempt from these laws but rather tolerated by the copyright holder.

      Should fix that in law, based on the commonality of such use.

      IP companies use every such opening, we should too.

      combination of plausible deniability (wizard uk boarding school isnt that orginal)

      Except they even use character names from HP.

      Publicity - maybe, would be funny.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        I would personally argue that fixing the law means getting rid of the notion of intellectual property all together.

        In my own reasoning someone copying me is the highest form of flattery and i would still have an edge understanding the properties of own idea better then the copycat does.

        Its a huge limiter on human progress and absolutely non sensical in situations where multiple people just happen to have a similar idea. As it stands now an employee could invent the cure to cancer, the employer claiming it and then putting it in a vault to never use and bar anyone from creating it.

        Naturally such idea of abolishing copyright receives lots of criticism from many people because we would have to solve other problems that copyright now aims to fix but i don’t think that justifies the damage it does.