Overview

• Warner Bros. Discovery filed a federal complaint in Los Angeles accusing Midjourney of training on its films and shows and generating near‑identical images and videos of characters including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Bugs Bunny and Scooby‑Doo.
• The suit attaches dozens of side‑by‑side comparisons and alleges the service can return Warner‑owned characters even from generic prompts such as “classic comic book superhero battle.”
• Warner says Midjourney recently removed protections that had blocked some video creations and promoted the change as an improvement, framing the move as evidence of willful infringement.
• The company seeks disgorgement of profits or statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work and an injunction to halt further copying, display or distribution of its IP.
• Midjourney has argued in earlier filings in the Disney–Universal case that training on copyrighted works is fair use and that outputs are user‑directed, and it has not yet publicly responded to Warner’s complaint.