Deepfake case study · Multi-modal
Disney, Universal, and the hard-working creative community deepfake (Jun 2025)
Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, claiming the AI image generator creates unauthorized copies of their copyrighted characters and trains its video service on copyrighted materials.…
- Incident date
- Jun 2025
- Target
- Disney, Universal, and the hard-working creative community
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, claiming the AI image generator creates unauthorized copies of their copyrighted characters and trains its video service on copyrighted materials. The lawsuit includes Midjourney-generated images of characters like Darth Vader, Minions, Shrek, and Yoda.