Overview

• Warner Bros. Discovery filed the complaint in Los Angeles federal court, alleging Midjourney’s tools generate downloadable images and videos of its characters, including from generic prompts.
• The 101-page lawsuit includes dozens of side-by-side exhibits comparing Midjourney outputs to studio images to argue the AI produces on-model reproductions.
• WBD seeks an injunction plus either disgorgement of Midjourney’s profits or statutory damages up to $150,000 per infringed work.
• The studio says Midjourney previously blocked users from turning many infringing images into videos but removed that safeguard last month.
• The case joins Disney and Universal’s June suit; Midjourney has argued in that matter that training on copyrighted works is fair use, as the WBD complaint cites nearly 21 million users and about $300 million in 2024 revenue.