内容来源：https://www.theverge.com/news/772101/midjourney-ai-generator-warner-bros-lawsuit

内容总结：

华纳兄弟探索公司近日对人工智能初创企业Midjourney提起诉讼，指控其未经授权利用AI工具大规模生成并传播受版权保护的影视角色图像及视频。诉状指出，该公司旗下超人、蝙蝠侠、兔八哥、史酷比、神奇女侠等经典角色被Midjourney通过用户提示词等方式生成"无数侵权衍生作品"，甚至仅输入"经典漫画超级英雄对决"等模糊指令即可输出侵权内容。

华纳兄弟在诉讼文件中强调，Midjourney明知其行为构成"惊人规模的版权侵权"，仍故意将他人知识产权作为吸引用户订阅的盈利工具，其行为堪称"公然盗版"。除华纳兄弟外，该平台还面临迪士尼、环球影业等多家内容巨头的类似版权诉讼。

目前华纳兄弟要求法院判令Midjourney停止侵权行为、建立版权保护机制，并寻求相应经济赔偿。截至发稿前，Midjourney未对诉讼事项作出公开回应。

中文翻译：

据《好莱坞报道者》此前消息，华纳兄弟探索公司正对人工智能初创企业Midjourney提起诉讼，指控其"公然将他人的知识产权当作自家资产肆意分发"。诉状中指出，Midjourney生成了"数不胜数"的侵权图像及视频，涉及超人、兔八哥、史酷比等其享有版权的角色形象。

华纳兄弟探索公司起诉Midjourney生成"海量"侵权角色内容
诉状称，Midjourney"肆无忌惮地分发"受版权保护的角色图像，包括超人、蝙蝠侠、兔八哥等形象。
华纳兄弟探索公司指控Midjourney通过其人工智能图像和视频生成工具，复制、展示并传播其知识产权的"未授权衍生作品"。诉状中列举了多个实例：当用户输入要求特定情境下的角色形象时，Midjourney的人工智能工具似乎生成了神奇女侠、崔弟、飞天小女警乃至瑞克和莫蒂等受版权保护角色的图像。

此外，华纳兄弟探索公司声称即使用户未提及具体角色名称，Midjourney仍会生成侵权图像。例如在收到"经典漫画超级英雄大战"指令后，该系统仍生成了超人、蝙蝠侠和闪电侠的可下载图像。Midjourney目前还面临迪士尼与环球影业的类似版权诉讼，两家公司称其人工智能图像生成器如同"虚拟自动贩卖机"，源源不断地产出"未经授权的作品复制品"。

华纳兄弟探索公司指出Midjourney明知自身存在"惊人规模的盗版和版权侵权行为"，却拒绝保护版权持有者权益。
诉状强调："很难想象还有比Midjourney所作所为更为蓄意的版权侵权行径。Midjourney故意利用华纳兄弟探索公司宝贵的知识产权来吸引用户订阅服务，通过向订阅者提供无数华纳版权作品的复制品和衍生品牟取利益。"

华纳兄弟探索公司要求Midjourney就涉嫌侵权行为承担损害赔偿责任，并请求法院禁止该平台复制、展示或传播其知识产权，同时责令其停止提供缺乏版权保护措施的人工智能工具。Midjourney未立即回应置评请求。

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英文来源：

Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup “brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,” as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney generated “countless” infringing images and videos of its copyrighted characters, including Superman, Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo, and more.
Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters
Midjourney ‘brazenly dispenses’ images of copyrighted characters, like Superman, Batman, Bugs Bunny, and more, the lawsuit alleges.
Midjourney ‘brazenly dispenses’ images of copyrighted characters, like Superman, Batman, Bugs Bunny, and more, the lawsuit alleges.
Warner Bros. Discovery accuses Midjourney of reproducing, displaying, and distributing “unauthorized derivatives” of its intellectual property through its AI image and video generation tools. Throughout the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery shares several examples of how Midjourney’s AI tools seem to have generated images of copyrighted characters, like Wonder Woman, Tweety, the Power Puff Girls, and even Rick and Morty in response to prompts asking to see the characters in certain situations.
Additionally, Warner Bros. Discover claims that Midjourney will generate infringing images even if prompts don’t mention a specific character. For instance, Midjourney allegedly generated downloadable images of Superman, Batman, and Flash after receiving the prompt, “classic comic book superhero battle.” Midjourney is facing a similar copyright lawsuit from Disney and Universal, which called the company’s AI image generator a “virtual vending machine” that generates “endless authorized copies” of their work.
Warner Bros. Discovery claims Midjourney is aware of the “breathtaking scope of its piracy and copyright infringement” but refuses to protect copyright holders.
“It is hard to imagine copyright infringement that is any more willful than what Midjourney is doing here,” the lawsuit states. “Midjourney is purposefully exploiting Warner Bros. Discovery’s valuable intellectual property to attract subscribers to Midjourney, and it is profiting by providing subscribers with endless copies and derivatives of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Copyrighted Works.”
Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney for damages related to the alleged copyright infringement, and is asking the court to block Midjourney from copying, displaying, or distributing its intellectual property, as well as to stop the company from offering AI tools without copyright protection measures. Midjourney didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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