The Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday sued a Hong Kong jewelry company it accuses of selling illegal Mickey Mouse jewelry. The ...

"Piracy is piracy," says Disney's chief legal officer, as the studios aim to show that tools allowing personalized AI slop creations of characters like Darth Vader or Shrek run afoul of their IP.

The earliest depiction of Mickey Mouse, who first appeared publicly in the film short 'Steamboat Willie' in 1928, are now in ...

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, claims the AI company Midjourney generates images that “blatantly incorporate and copy” the movie studios’ famous characters.

Disney and NBCU said that before they sued Midjourney, they asked the company “to stop its theft of their intellectual property” but that instead Midjourney “has continued to release new ...

Brandon Bauman, a top Hollywood dealmaker and chief strategy officer at Loti AI, examines the landmark lawsuit filed by ...

S o Hollywood is finally making a move to try to protect intellectual property from generative AI. Disney and Universal have together filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, the company behind one of ...

Which brings us to 2026. And beyond. Because this lawsuit isn’t your standard intellectual-property dispute. It goes to the heart of what studios are — and what their owners ultimately want ...

Disney won a lawsuit against DisGear, an online store that sells T-shirts with Cinderella Castle and Darth Vader on them. ... Disney is known for its fierce protection of its intellectual property.

K&K Productions, the company of Knievel’s son, sued Disney claiming the character Duke Caboom violated their intellectual property and publicity rights to the daredevil stunt performer who rose ...