The production company behind “Blade Runner 2049” filed a lawsuit Monday against Elon Musk and Tesla, accusing them of copyright infringement while promoting a new self-driving car.
In its lawsuit, Alcon Entertainment says Musk used AI-generated imagery mirroring scenes from its 2017 sci-fi film while presenting Tesla’s new autonomous Robotaxi at a marketing event earlier this month. Producers had denied his request to do so.
“He did it anyway,” the suit alleges, adding that the company denied Musk’s request due to the tech mogul’s “extreme political and social views” that occasionally veer into “hate speech.” Musk enthusiastically endorsed Donald Trump for president, appearing alongside him at a rally earlier this month, and has espoused transphobic views.
What’s great about lawsuits like this is you really only have to prove intent and they have a record of them asking for similar imagery.
The big brain move was to ask them first, thereby proving you wanted to use their IP.
If he had just faked it anyway without asking he might have got away with it.
Genius strategist.
I hate this guy so much. Hope he gets run over by one of his shitty trucks in full self/driving mode. Best part is that they turn off FSD right before impact to absolve blame. Oh, poor guy got smooshed, but FSD wasn’t to blame.
Beat we can hope for is an overdose
Abandoned city background + “you are now in mexico” filter + duster = owned by Hollywood.
Elon sucks but so does this lawsuit.
If they asked if they can use imagery similar to or from BR2049 then they’re clearly in the wrong, which it sounds like they did. If they just made an ad and it happened to look like it, maybe not.
When the image appears on the screen, he says, “we didn’t want the blade runner future. Well, maybe that cool duster he’s wearing.” So anyone there would likely assume that the image is from Blade Runner. The intent of the image was Blade Runner.
I really, really dislike the guy, but if he didn’t actually use imagery from the film… Does this suit actually have standing?
C’mon guys, cripes. What are we doing here, feeding lawyers for the sake of feeding lawyers??
Agreed. There’s no footage used from BR2049 or even a cheap simulation of it in his promotion. And you can’t trademark simply saying the words, “Blade Runner.”
I had no idea you could copywrite scenery lol. How fucking stupid and dystopian is that?
Elon is a fucking douchebag but Jesus Christ copywrite laws are just as cancerous
Lolol fucking awesome
They’re suing him for using vaguely cyberpunk ai generated images?
As much as it seems like Musk is trying to make a real life cyberpunk dystopia, this seems a little silly.
They’re suing him for copying scenes shot for shot from their movie after they told him explicitly not to
I just watched his presentation here. He did no such thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVzzNof3wqU
Do you have a video that shows this?
He literally references the movie saying the title as a clearly “Blader Runner” image is on screen. Are you meaning to be obtuse or are you just really that dim?
The subject is copyright infringement. Do try to keep up.
Which is exactly what he did.
I’ll assume it’s the latter at this point.
There is nothing in Musks presentation that infringes copyright. You’re an idiot.
This was productive and I’m sure you convinced a whole lot of people
If Tesla (or the marketing company) asked for permission, then it was more than “vaguely”.
My interpretation is they wanted to use it, got denied, so used a more generic setting instead.
*tried to
It was still close enough that the production company feels they can win with their claim.
Desert wasn’t really a cyberpunk setting until BR 2049. Post-apocolyptic sure, MadMax had that stitched up in 1979, but not cyberpunk.
