Lawyers for Elon Musk intend to move to reject a case accusing Tesla’s chief executive, who is also the head of President Donald Trump’s Doge organization, for the use of copyright “blade runner” images An event Tesla Press Press.
To a deposit Submitted to the Central District of California, America, west address late Tuesday, lawyers for Musk stated that both Musk and Tesla, also named in court, will move to reject “all claims” for relief with prejudice. “With prejudice” is a legal term which means that a case is permanently rejected and cannot be re -established.
The plaintiff in the suit, Alcon Entertainment, intends to oppose the proposal, according to the deposition.
In October, Alcon, the production company behind the 2017 film “Blade Runner 2049”, filed the lawsuit against Musk, Tesla and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) for what claimed to be a deliberate circumvention of IP rights.
According to Alcon’s complaint, Musk and WBD asked to use images from “Blade Runner 2049” to promote Tesla’s futuristic concept cars hours before they were disclosed in a batch of Warner studio. When Alcon would not agree to provide rights through WBD, the lawsuit claims that Tesla, in the direction of Musk, comes from the image of raw material to copy it using an AI model. No particular AI model is called in the suit (yet).
Musk then showed this alleged fake pictures “Blade Runner” During the event, while talking about the movie itself.
Alcon also claims to complain that she never knew any of the Tesla and WBD agreements that would be necessary before Tesla’s press. The costume of the productive company proposes the ban on Tesla from further distribution of controversial advertising materials, as well as indefinite allowances – although the complaint also notes that violations under US copyright can reach up to $ 150,000. Violation and provides a further cost estimate that is that is, that is,. Higher:
‘Based on previous actual cooperation contracts for the automotive industry at BR2049 [BladeRunner 2049]Tesla would probably have to do significant costs-at least in the middle of six figures (at least $ 500,000) and possibly eight elements ($ 10 million or more) to obtain a BR2049 brand with Tesla and the [company’s] cybercab [robotaxi] In the market value, if Alcon was still willing to do it at all, “says the original complaint filed by Alcon’s legal team.
