Midjourney asks a federal judge to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery to disclose internal AI use. Attorney Bobby Ghajar wrote that if studios are “doing the very thing they seek to punish,” that evidence is central to fair-use and unclean-hands arguments.
Magistrate Judge Richlin ruled mid-June 2026 against broad discovery, limiting disclosure to consumer-facing AI tools. Midjourney seeks AI business plans, training datasets, model weights, and board AI presentations. Disney’s original June 2025 complaint called Midjourney a “bottomless pit of plagiarism.”