AI ETHICS AND REGULATION
The 110-page lawsuit details how Midjourney’ s tools allow users to create images based on Disney and Universal intellectual property through simple text prompts.
The studios offered examples of Midjourney animations that include Disney characters, such as Yoda wielding a lightsaber, Bart Simpson riding a skateboard, Marvel’ s Iron Man soaring above the clouds and Pixar’ s Buzz Lightyear taking flight.
“ Our world-class IP is built on decades of financial investment, creativity and innovation – investments only made possible by the incentives embodied in copyright law that give creators the exclusive right to profit from their works,” says Horacio Gutierrez, Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer of Walt Disney.
Midjourney monetises its service through paid subscriptions and generated
US $ 300m
in revenue in 2024, according to Disney and Universal
136 August 2025