{"id":285628,"date":"2026-07-04T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/midjourney-wants-the-hollywood-studios-that-sued-it-to-show-the-court-how-they-use-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:00:08","slug":"midjourney-wants-the-hollywood-studios-that-sued-it-to-show-the-court-how-they-use-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/midjourney-wants-the-hollywood-studios-that-sued-it-to-show-the-court-how-they-use-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Midjourney Wants The Hollywood Studios That Sued It To Show The Court How They Use AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2207936\/midjourney-wants-studios-that-sued-show-court-ai-use\/\">Midjourney Wants The Hollywood Studios That Sued It To Show The Court How They Use AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2207936\/midjourney-wants-studios-that-sued-show-court-ai-use\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2207936\/midjourney-wants-studios-that-sued-show-court-ai-use\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-04 07:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">The image generator argued that the companies are also training their AI on copyrighted data.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Tariq_Mahmud_Naim\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Midjourney wants to see how\u00a0Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney and Universal Studios use artificial intelligence technologies in their shows and movies, and according to\u00a0Variety it wants the companies to submit that information to court.\u00a0Last year,\u00a0the studios filed a lawsuit against the AI image generator, accusing it of\u00a0copyright infringement for being able to generate images of Superman,\u00a0Batman and other copyrighted characters. Midjourney argued that training AI with\u00a0publicly available images is fair use and that the studios themselves use the same training practices for their own AI models.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Midjourney is asking for the studios&#8217; AI business plans, research reports, training datasets, model weights and even the presentations about AI the companies used for their board meetings. However, in mid-June, a magistrate judge allowed the studios to withhold most information involving their AI use and to hand over only information related to &#8220;consumer-facing&#8221; AI applications. Now, Midjourney is asking the federal court to overturn that judge&#8217;s order.<\/p>\n<p>According to litigation publication\u00a0Mealey&#8217;s, Midjourney&#8217;s reasoning is that the evidence it&#8217;s asking for is related to its fair use defense. If the image generator can show that the studios themselves are training their own models on copyrighted works, then it could weaken their lawsuit.\u00a0&#8220;If Plaintiffs are doing the very thing they seek to punish, that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2207936\/midjourney-wants-studios-that-sued-show-court-ai-use\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midjourney Wants The Hollywood Studios That Sued It To Show The Court How They Use&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/midjourney-wants-the-studios-that-sued-it-to-show-the-court-how-they-use-ai\/l-intro-1783164583.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-285628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285630,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285628\/revisions\/285630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}