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This article reads like a press release from the copyright holders.

1. Copyright holders are not "creators." They simply own IP.
2. These big entertainment companies are suing a small, startup like Midjourney because it's cheaper than suing the bigger AI companies like ChatGPT and Google – who are the real targets.
3. Disney suing anybody is a joke. Disney's "copyrights" only exist because Congress keeps extending their expiration. IP is not real property. IP is a time-bound monopoly granted by the government in order to encourage innovation. These big copyright companies abuse the original intent of patent and copyright to enrich themselves, at the expense of the public – and real creators.
4. Scraping what's publicly available on the Net is not prohibited, or a crime.
5. Copyright infringement pertains to the commercial use of protected material. Simply recreating it without profit is not a crime – although clearly the copyright cartel would have you believe that even just drawing it yourself is prohibited.
6. Nobody owns the mind of the civilization, which AI is presently mapping and making accessible. The only way any copyrighted object has value is because it taps into what the civilization has instilled in individuals. Presuming to wall off pieces of people's minds, to not let them play, work, experiment, iterate on their own thoughts – is itself the offense.