(Reuters) – Walt Disney, Comcast’s Universal and Warner Bros Discovery have jointly filed a copyright lawsuit against China’s MiniMax alleging that its image- and video-generating service Hailuo AI was built from intellectual property stolen from the three major Hollywood studios.

The suit, filed in the district court in California on Tuesday, claims MiniMax “audaciously” used the studios’ famous copyrighted characters to market Hailuo as a “Hollywood studio in your pocket” and advertise and promote its service.

With a simple text prompt by a subscriber, Hailuo can generate downloadable images and videos of characters such as Darth Vader from “Star Wars”, Minions from “Despicable Me” and “Wonder Woman” with MiniMax Hailuo branding, the lawsuit claims.

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