China’s MiniMax loses bid to end Disney copyright lawsuit over AI system

Walt Disney, Comcast’s Universal, and Warner Bros Discovery have fended off a bid from China’s MiniMax to dismiss their lawsuit in California federal court over its alleged theft of their intellectual property to build its Hailuo image-and video-generating AI system. US District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld on Friday rejected MiniMax’s arguments at an early stage ‌of the ⁠case that ⁠the studios failed to make a valid claim and that the US court lacked jurisdiction over the company.