AI Glossary
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Disney and Universal v. Midjourney
A lawsuit by major film studios against the image generator Midjourney concerning the reproduction of protected characters and visual works in its outputs. It is among the leading disputes focused not on the inputs but on the outputs of generative AI.
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Protection of Generative AI Outputs
The contested question of whether and when the outputs of a model themselves can enjoy copyright protection, and to whom any rights belong.
We examine how courts have approached the question in our articles A Czech court has ruled that AI-generated graphics are not a copyrighted work and Thaler v. Perlmutter.