Midjourney turns the tables, demanding the studios suing it reveal their AI
The studios suing Midjourney say it trained AI on their characters without permission. Midjourney’s answer: prove you do not do exactly the same thing.
The AI image generator wants a US federal judge to intervene. It has asked the court to force the studios suing it to reveal how they use AI internally, Variety reported. It is a sharp turn in a copyright fight that could reshape how AI models are trained.
How we got here
Disney and Universal sued Midjourney in June 2025. They accused it of enabling mass infringement of characters like Darth Vader, Bart Simpson and Elsa. They called the tool a “bottomless pit of plagiarism.” Warner Bros. Discovery joined in September, citing Superman, Batman and Bugs Bunny, and demanding $150,000 for each infringed work. Midjourney’s defence is fair use: training on public images, it says, is legal.
Turning the tables
Now Midjourney wants to...
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