Yesterday, Disney and Universal Studios (which is owned by NBCUniversal) sued the generative AI company Midjourney in U.S. district court in Los Angeles. The 143-page filing alleges that the AI image generator was trained on countless works created by these Hollywood studios, and now “functions a…
Above all of this should be the glaringly historical fact that Hollywood was literally founded to escape lawyers for European film groups trying to bring those founders-to-be to justice for their, well, piracy of said films… 🤷🏼♂️ I mean, if anyone should deserve an ol’ fashioned legal rogering, it’s those hypocritical backbirths.
AFAIK it was more about getting away from Thomas Edison’s patents.
That is also true, considering he was an infamous patent troll of his time. Fuckin’ killed our boy Nikolai, by proxy, and now the ass-clown is named as the inventor of all manner of things he stole from other, more capable innovators. Fuck him sideways with a Faraday pineapple.