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But Universal has decided to compete with Disney's price increase with a very attractive offer, announced about a month after Disney announced its price increase for a single-day ticket.

"Piracy is piracy," says Disney's chief legal officer, as the studios aim to show that tools allowing personalized AI slop creations of characters like Darth Vader or Shrek run afoul of their IP.

The Disney vs. Universal theme parks battle dates to the mid-1980s when Michael Eisner was running Disney. In 1985, Eisner announced a bold new addition to Walt Disney World — a working studio.

Disney’s $8.6 billion acquistion of Hulu could help fund Universal’s new theme park attractions but also tip the balance of power between the companies.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, claims the AI company Midjourney generates images that “blatantly incorporate and copy” the movie studios’ famous characters.

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Disney, and to a lesser extent Universal, live and die from monetizing their intellectual property (IP). Mind you, much of that IP is generated from the public domain.