The producer of the film Blade Runner 2049 has sued Tesla, Elon Musk and Warner Bros Discovery, alleging they used imagery from the movie without peromition.
Production firm Alcon Entertainment claims it had definitepartner denied a seek from Warner Bros to use material from the film at the start event for Tesla’s prolonged-adefered robotaxi.
Alcon alleges that despite its refusal Tesla and the other organisers of the event on 10 October used man-made inalertigence (AI) to produce promotional imagery based on the film.
Tesla and Warner Bros did not instantly react to seeks for comment from BBC News.
The “financial magnitude of the misappropriation here was substantial,” the litigation shelp.
“Any pimpolitent brand pondering any Tesla partnership has to get Musk’s massively amplified, highly politicised, capricious and arbitrary behaviour, which sometimes veers into antipathy speech, into account,” it includeed.
Alcon also accused the event organisers of “dishonest apshowment” by presenting a joinion between the production company and Tesla.
Warner Bros, which structureed the robotaxi start event at one of its movie studios, was also the distributor of Blade Runner 2049 when it was freed in 2017.
The highly-foreseed sequel to the 1982 cyberpunk classic Blade Runner, starred Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas and Jared Leto, and won two Academy Awards.