Studios Sue Chinese AI Firm MiniMax, Alleging Copyright Violations
Chinese tech company MiniMax is engaged in "willful and brazen" copyright infringement via its Hailuo AI image- and video-generating AI service, said Disney, Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery in a complaint (docket 2:25-cv-08768) filed Tuesday with the U.S. District Court…
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for Central California. The programmers said MiniMax markets Hailuo AI "as a 'Hollywood studio in your pocket'" and "built its business from intellectual property stolen from Hollywood studios" like them. The suit alleges direct and secondary copyright infringement by MiniMax and seeks unspecified damages, as well as an injunction prohibiting the offering of Hailuo AI without copyright protection measures. Also named as a defendant is MiniMax parent Shanghai Xiyu Jizhi Technology Co.