Midjourney has not responded publicly to the latest allegations. However, the company is already fighting a similar case in California brought by artists who claim their work was used without consent to train the company’s generative AI.
A Broader Legal Trend in AI Copyright Disputes
This lawsuit reflects a growing legal movement aimed at curbing what content creators call unauthorized exploitation of copyrighted materials by AI developers. A central question in these lawsuits: Can generative AI companies use copyrighted data from the internet to train their models without permission?
“Until courts draw a clearer line, companies will continue to argue that this kind of data use qualifies as fair use,” said an attorney familiar with multiple AI litigation cases.
More about Fair Use from the U.S. Copyright Office
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Parallel Cases: Reddit, OpenAI, and Getty
In a separate case, Reddit is suing Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI model, for scraping data from Reddit forums without consent. Anthropic, backed by Amazon and Google, denies wrongdoing but is also facing a lawsuit from music publishers claiming it used copyrighted lyrics from artists such as Beyoncé and The Rolling Stones.
