Midjourney is fighting back. Facing a copyright lawsuit from three Hollywood studios, the AI image generator has filed a motion to compel those same studios to disclose their own internal AI usage.
The legal move is deliberate. If the studios are themselves deploying AI tools, potentially trained on copyrighted material, that fact becomes directly relevant to their standing and credibility in a case built on IP protection. The discovery request puts the plaintiffs in an uncomfortable position: litigate AI ethics while hiding their own AI stack.
Read the full piece for the specific studios named, the scope of the discovery request, and what Midjourney's legal team is actually asking for. The procedural details matter here. This case is shaping up as a stress test for how Hollywood can simultaneously use and sue AI.
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