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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Disney and Universal Sue AI Image Generator Midjourney

Who owns imagination in the AI era? Hollywood says not Midjourney.

๋””์ฆˆ๋‹ˆยท์œ ๋‹ˆ๋ฒ„์„ค, AI ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ์ƒ์„ฑ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ €๋‹ˆ์— ์ง‘๋‹จ ์†Œ์†ก ์ œ๊ธฐ
AI ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์ƒ์ƒ๋ ฅ, ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์˜ ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€? ํ• ๋ฆฌ์šฐ๋“œ๋Š” "๋ฏธ๋“œ์ €๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋งํฌ : https://forms.gle/6a6ou68a2YyLvnaMA

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ๋ฌธ์˜ : https://open.kakao.com/me/insightsalon

๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, an AI image-generation firm, accusing it of mass-scale copyright infringement. The studios allege that the platform has produced "innumerable" images of characters like Darth Vader, Elsa, and the Minionsโ€”without permission.
๋””์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์™€ ์œ ๋‹ˆ๋ฒ„์„ค์ด AI ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ์ƒ์„ฑ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ €๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ง‘๋‹จ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํƒ€์›Œ์ฆˆ์˜ ๋‹ค์Šค ๋ฒ ์ด๋”, ๊ฒจ์šธ์™•๊ตญ์˜ ์—˜์‚ฌ, ์Šˆํผ๋ฐฐ๋“œ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ์–ธ ๋“ฑ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฌด๋‹จ ์ƒ์„ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋‹ค.

According to the complaint, Midjourney made $300 million last year and is preparing to launch a video serviceโ€”raising concerns among studios that AI tools may compete with or displace human creativity in visual media.
์†Œ์žฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ €๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด์—๋งŒ 3์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๊ณ , ๊ณง ์˜์ƒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊นŒ์ง€ ์ถœ์‹œํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ AI ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜์ƒ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ฐฝ์ž‘๋ ฅ์„ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์šฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์ปค์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

Generative Remixing (AI ๋ฆฌ๋ฏน์‹ฑ)
โ†’ AI models recreate works by mixing known characters and themes.
โ†’ AI ๋ชจ๋ธ์€ ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์œ ๋ช… ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ์™€ ํ…Œ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ํ˜ผํ•ฉํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์žฌ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•œ๋‹ค.

IP Scraping (์ง€์ ์žฌ์‚ฐ ์ˆ˜์ง‘)
โ†’ Training AI models using scraped contentโ€”often without licenses.
โ†’ AI ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฌด๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ด€ํ–‰.

Originality on Trial (์ฐฝ์ž‘์„ฑ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€์ด ์‹œํ—˜๋Œ€์— ์˜ค๋ฅด๋‹ค)
โ†’ Courts must now define what constitutes "original" in an era of generative AI.
โ†’ ์ƒ์„ฑํ˜• AI ์‹œ๋Œ€, ๋ฒ•์›์€ ์ด์ œ '์ฐฝ์ž‘๋ฌผ'์˜ ์ •์˜๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋‚ด๋ ค์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

The case illustrates the entertainment industryโ€™s deep ambivalence toward AI: studios want to use the tech for efficiency but fear losing control over iconic brands and characters. Disneyโ€™s legal chief stated plainly, โ€œPiracy is piracyโ€”even if done by an AI.โ€
์ด๋ฒˆ ์†Œ์†ก์€ ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ ์‚ฐ์—…์ด AI๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹จ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ํ™•๋ณด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ธธ ์›ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ์ž์‚ฌ IP์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ†ต์ œ๋ ฅ์„ ์žƒ์„๊นŒ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋””์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์˜ ๋ฒ•๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž๋Š” โ€œAI๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„, ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ๋ณต์ œ๋Š” ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ๋ณต์ œโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ž˜๋ผ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This lawsuit could set legal precedents that reshape copyright law in the age of generative AI. Key questions include whether AI outputs are transformative, who is liableโ€”the user or the platformโ€”and how far fair use extends.
์ด๋ฒˆ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ์ƒ์„ฑํ˜• AI ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์ €์ž‘๊ถŒ ๋ฒ•์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ๋†“์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŒ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์Ÿ์ ์€ AI์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์ด ์ฐฝ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์ •๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์ฑ…์ž„์€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์— ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ณต์ • ์ด์šฉ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋Š” ์–ด๋””๊นŒ์ง€ ํ—ˆ์šฉ๋˜๋Š”์ง€๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ "bottomless pit of plagiarism" (๋ฌดํ•œ ๋ณต์ œ์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต)
"Midjourneyโ€™s platform is a bottomless pit of plagiarism."
"๋ฏธ๋“œ์ €๋‹ˆ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์€ ๋ฌดํ•œ ๋ณต์ œ์˜ ๊ตฌ๋ฉ์ด์— ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ "IP(Intellectual Property) arms race" (์ง€์ ์žฌ์‚ฐ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ)
"Hollywood is entering an IP arms race where AI makes enforcement harder."
"AI๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋‹จ์†์ด ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์ง„ ์ง€๊ธˆ, ํ• ๋ฆฌ์šฐ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง€์ ์žฌ์‚ฐ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์— ๋Œ์ž…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ "creativity without consent" (๋™์˜ ์—†๋Š” ์ฐฝ์ž‘)
"This is creativity without consentโ€”and thatโ€™s dangerous."
"์ด๊ฑด ๋™์˜ ์—†๋Š” ์ฐฝ์ž‘์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•œ ์ผ์ด๋‹ค."

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
Major U.S. outlets like the New York Times, and Bloomberg emphasized how the lawsuit marks a pivotal moment in the legal struggle over generative AI and copyrighted content. Legal scholars are split on whether AI outputs that remix iconic visuals can qualify as fair use or remain infringing.
๋‰ด์š•ํƒ€์ž„์ฆˆ, ๋ธ”๋ฃธ๋ฒ„๊ทธ ๋“ฑ ์ฃผ์š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์–ธ๋ก ์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ์ƒ์„ฑํ˜• AI์™€ ์ €์ž‘๊ถŒ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ฒ•์  ๋ถ„์Ÿ์—์„œ ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. AI๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ธ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ '๊ณต์ • ์ด์šฉ'์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ์†ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ๋ณต์ œ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ๋„ ์˜๊ฒฌ์ด ์—‡๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

Who owns Yoda in the age of AI? For now, the force is strong with the lawyers.
AI ์‹œ๋Œ€, ์š”๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์˜ ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€? ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ '๋ฒ•๋ฌด์˜ ํž˜'์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… March 16, 2023 โ€” U.S. Copyright Office launches AI Initiative to clarify copyright protections for AI-generated works.

2023๋…„ 3์›” 16์ผ โ€” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ €์ž‘๊ถŒ์ฒญ, ์ƒ์„ฑํ˜• AI ์ฐฝ์ž‘๋ฌผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์ •๋ฆฝ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ โ€˜AI ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒโ€™ ์‹œ์ž‘

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • "Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney" โ€” BBC, 2025

  • "Generative AI and copyright" โ€” NYT, 2024

  • "AI and fair use disputes" โ€” The Verge, 2025

  • "Hollywoodโ€™s uneasy AI embrace" โ€” The Atlantic, 2025

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