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“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney (htxt.co.za)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
  • The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
  • The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Remember when stealing on sea was piracy? Always has been.

Copyright infringement is different.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes. Piracy in the sense of stealing from ships in international waters is different from piracy in the sense of copyright infringement. Thanks for that.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I didn't mean to suggest that. I consider calling copyright infringement "piracy" to be propaganda started by the music industry to push their monetary interests. A derogatory term that conflates it with immoral stealing (and murder). This overstates any harms caused.