Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Sue AI Company MiniMax Over Copyrighted Film Training Data
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Edward Baxter
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Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery have filed a joint copyright lawsuit against Shanghai-based AI company MiniMax, alleging that its Hailuo AI video generation platform was trained on copyrighted films scraped without permission. The lawsuit highlights the ongoing tension between Hollywood studios and AI companies over the use of copyrighted content for training generative AI models.
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· 2 pulledWhen an AI company markets its product as a 'Hollywood studio in your pocket,' it probably shouldn't be surprised when Hollywood lawyers come knocking.
The studios' complaint alleges that Hailuo AI was built on a foundation of stolen intellectual property: that MiniMax scraped and trained its model on the studios' copyrighted films without permission.
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