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Disney, Universal, Getty Images deepfake (Jun 2025)
Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit against Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that Midjourney trained its AI on copyrighted images and enabled users to generate unauthorized reproductions of characters…
- Incident date
- Jun 2025
- Target
- Disney, Universal, Getty Images
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit against Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that Midjourney trained its AI on copyrighted images and enabled users to generate unauthorized reproductions of characters like Darth Vader and Homer Simpson. Getty Images also has a lawsuit against Stability AI for scraping millions of its copyrighted photos to train Stable Diffusion.