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In a key step taken to defend its intellectual property, The Walt Disney Company has sent a cease-and-desist letter to AI firm Character.AI, alleging that the platform is making unauthorized use of Disney copyrighted characters and demanding that they cease using them in their content immediately. This lawsuit underscores the...

Warner Bros. Discovery is launching a major legal salvo against the AI service Midjourney, which it is suing for what it describes as pervasive copyright infringement. The entertainment giant claims that Midjourney’s AI program has enabled users to create numerous infringing depictions of its classic characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder...

In a development that may redraw the lines between artificial intelligence and intellectual property, Disney has filed for a series of patents that would allow the company to automate the creation of illustrated characters modeled after any description a context AI gives them, reports the Independent. A Battle Brewing at...