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Meta’s new AI head Alexandr Wang announces partnership w/ Midjourney. Does it add more insurance for copyright suits v. Midjourney?
Read more: Meta’s new AI head Alexandr Wang announces partnership w/ Midjourney. Does it add more insurance for copyright suits v. Midjourney?On Friday, Meta’s new head of AI, Alexandr Wang, announced a partnership with Midjourney, the generator for images and videos. It’s not surprising that Meta would try to bolster its AI models by partnering with Midjourney, which provides one of the leading image generators. More intriguing is Midjourney’s potential fortification from any adverse judgments in…
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Midjourney files Rule 7.1 statement, disclosing its insurers
Read more: Midjourney files Rule 7.1 statement, disclosing its insurersInteresting to see all the insurance companies listed on Midjourney’s disclosure statement for Rule 7.1 Midjourney has 5 different insurers! This made me wonder about other AI companies. Anthropic listed Google as a having a financial interest in the lawsuit filed by Bartz.
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Midjourney files Answer to Disney suit: stresses role of users in generating outputs and Disney’s failure to use DMCA notice and takedown
Read more: Midjourney files Answer to Disney suit: stresses role of users in generating outputs and Disney’s failure to use DMCA notice and takedownIn its Answer, Midjourney not only questions Disney’s simultaneous use of Midjourney (through “many dozens of … Plaintiffs’ corporate email addresses” used as subscribers of Midjourney) and filing a lawsuit against Midjourney, but also highlights the role of users in generating outputs on Midjourney (for which the company is not directly responsible for outside of…
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A week after being sued by Disney, Midjourney launches video generator. Risky business?
Read more: A week after being sued by Disney, Midjourney launches video generator. Risky business?As Disney and Universal anticipated in their Complaint against Midjourney, a new feature of video generation has just been launched by Midjourney. And the results are super impressive: but is this risky business for midjourney? One of Disney and Universal’s main gripes is that Midjourney allegedly failed to institute greater guardrails to prevent Midjourney from…
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Did Midjourney just awaken the sleeping giant? Disney, Universal file copyright suit v. AI image generator for outputs of their characters.
Read more: Did Midjourney just awaken the sleeping giant? Disney, Universal file copyright suit v. AI image generator for outputs of their characters.midjourney hits different The majority of the 41 copyright lawsuits against AI companies do not involve alleged infringement in the outputs of AI generators. A handful do, including the New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI, which included in Exhibit J to the complaint 100 examples of alleged regurgitated articles generated from ChatGPT. But OpenAI said…