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Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCU Sue Chinese AI Company MiniMax, Alleging It ‘Pirates and Plunders’ Studios Copyrighted Works on ‘Massive Scale’
Disney, WBD and NBCUniversal filed a lawsuit against MiniMax, a Chinese AI company, alleging "willful and brazen" copyright infringement.
“MiniMax operates Hailuo AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence image and video generating service that pirates and plunders Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works on a massive scale,” the companies said in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday. The media companies alleged in the lawsuit that “MiniMax could easily stop its theft and exploitation of Plaintiffs’ intellectual property” and said other AI image- and video-generating services have instituted copyright protection measures. “MiniMax’s bootlegging business model and defiance of U.S copyright law are not only an attack on Plaintiffs and the hard-working creative community that brings the magic of movies to life, but are also a broader threat to the American motion picture industry, which has created millions of jobs and contributed more than $260 billion to the nation’s economy,” the companies said in the suit.
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