Disney accused the technology giant Google of training and developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) services with works from the entertainment company that it then distributes without its consent, which amounts to “large-scale” copyright infringement, while announcing a multimillion-dollar deal with OpeanAI.
“Google is infringing Disney’s copyrights on a large scale by copying a large corpus of Disney copyrighted works without authorization to train and develop generative artificial intelligence models and services,” the law firm Jenner & Block said in a letter on behalf of Disney, reviewed this Thursday by Variety.
The technology company then uses the generated models to “commercially exploit and distribute copies of its protected works to consumers in violation of Disney’s copyright,” added the document, presented to Google’s general counsel.
Additionally, the entertainment giant alleged that many of the infringing images “carry Google’s Gemini logo, falsely implying that Google’s exploitation of Disney’s intellectual property is authorized and endorsed” by the company.
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The letter also lists some of the legendary Disney characters affected by the AI services used by Google, including ‘Frozen’, ‘The Lion King’, ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Toy Story’ or ‘Monsters Inc.’, in addition to other franchises such as ‘The Simpsons’ or ‘Star Wars’.
The accusations against Google arise after the letters sent to Meta and Character AI to cease these activities, as well as the litigation it filed together with the companies NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery against the AI companies Midjourney and Minimax.
Disney’s letter also coincides with the investment agreement of more than $1 billion in OpenAI that includes authorization for ChatGPT and the video generation tool Sora to use their characters and properties to generate short videos based on user instructions, signed this Thursday.
With information from EFE
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