{"id":240238,"date":"2026-07-04T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.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":"2026-07-04T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:45:10","slug":"midjourney-wants-the-hollywood-studios-that-sued-it-to-show-the-court-how-they-use-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.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<ul>\n<li>Midjourney is seeking court-ordered information from Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, and Universal Studios regarding their AI practices in hopes of establishing a fair use defense.<\/li>\n<li>The companies previously sued Midjourney for alleged copyright infringement, particularly in generating images of copyrighted characters like Superman and Batman.<\/li>\n<li>Midjourney argues that the training of their own AI on publicly available images constitutes fair use, and also claims that these companies use similar methods for their AI models.<\/li>\n<li>Midjourney&#8217;s information requests include AI business plans, research reports, training datasets, model weights, and board meeting presentations.<\/li>\n<li>A judge previously allowed the studios to withhold much of these AI-related details, requiring only information on &#8220;consumer-facing&#8221; AI applications.<\/li>\n<li>Midjourney contests the judge&#8217;s partial redaction, aiming to show the studios&#8217; own practices with copyrighted data to weaken the infringement claim against them.<\/li>\n<li>This case could set a precedent for the types of evidence that may be admitted and considered in future litigation involving AI and copyright issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/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":240239,"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":[],"class_list":["post-240238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240240,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240238\/revisions\/240240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}