Musk moves to dismiss suit over Tesla’s alleged use of AI-generated ‘Blade Runner’ imagery
Lawyers for Elon Musk are planning to dismiss a case of the CEO of Tesla, who is also the head of the Doge organization of President Donald Trump, of the use of AI-generated, Copyright-Violating “Blade Runner “-Spired images during a Tesla press event.
In an application Subject to the American district court Central District of California, the Western division at the end of Tuesday, lawyers for Musk said that both Musk and Tesla, which is also mentioned as a suspect in the case, will switch to reject “all claims” for exemption with prejudices . “With prejudices” is a legal term, which means that a case is permanently rejected and cannot be filled again.
The plaintiff in the suit, Alcon Entertainment, intends to resist the motion, according to the submission.
In October, Alcon, the production company behind the film ‘Blade Runner 2049’ of 2017, brought the lawsuit against Musk, Tesla and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) for what it claimed was a deliberate circumference of his IP -rights.
According to Alcon’s complaint, Musk and WBD asked to use images of “Blade Runner 2049” to promote Tesla’s futuristic concept car -hours for their unveiling at a Warner studio plot. If Alcon would not agree to provide the rights via WBD, the suit that Tesla bought in Musk’s direction that images has bought as a raw material to duplicate it using an AI model. No specific AI model is (still) mentioned in the suit.
Musk then showed this alleged fake images of “Blade Runner” During the event while talking about the film itself.
Alcon also claims in his complaint that it was never informed of the similarities between Tesla and WBD that would have been necessary for the Tesla press. The production company’s lawsuit proposes to prohibit Tesla to further distribute the disputed promotional material, as well as non -specified damage – although the complaint also notes that infringements under the US Copyright Act can be up to $ 150,000 per violation, and it offers a Further cost estimate that is that is that is higher:
“Based on earlier actual connecting contracts for car partners on BR2049 [BladeRunner 2049]Tesla should probably make considerable expenditure in the middle of six digits (at least $ 500,000) and possibly in the eight digits ($ 10 million or more) to obtain an BR2049 brand relationship with Tesla and the [company’s] Cybercab [robotaxi] With market value, if Alcon had even been willing to do it, “reads the original complaint submitted by the Legal Team of Alcon. “The breaches of copyright here made it possible for Tesla to save these expenses.”
