Disney and Universal sued Midjourney for alleged copyright infringement last year, noting that the startup's image-generation models could create images of characters, such as Bart Simpson and Darth Vader, who are owned by the studios. A few months later, Warner Bros. sued Midjourney as well. The current dispute revolves around the documentation the studios will need to produce during the discovery process. A judge previously ruled that the studios would indeed have to provide information about their generative AI usage ' but only when it led to 'consumer-facing' videos and images. In its latest filing, Midjourney seeks to overturn that limitation, arguing that it 'unfairly' allows the studios 'to cherry-pick only those documents they believe support their market harm claims while depriving Midjourney of documents that would support its defenses.' Midjourney goes on to claim that the 'documents [the studios] are withholding are precisely those that would reveal whether, behind...
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