{"id":9485,"date":"2024-10-22T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/?p=9485"},"modified":"2026-06-29T02:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:18:37","slug":"elon-musk-sued-by-blade-runner-2049-producers-over-alleged-copyright-infringement-of-robotaxi-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/elon-musk-sued-by-blade-runner-2049-producers-over-alleged-copyright-infringement-of-robotaxi-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Sued by &#8216;Blade Runner 2049&#8217; Producers Over Alleged Copyright Infringement of Robotaxi Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https___hypebeast.com_image_2024_10_22_elon-musk-sued-blade-runner-2049-producers-over-alleged-copyright-infringement-robotaxi-imagery-news-001-1_\u7ed3\u679c.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https___hypebeast.com_image_2024_10_22_elon-musk-sued-blade-runner-2049-producers-over-alleged-copyright-infringement-robotaxi-imagery-news-001-1_\u7ed3\u679c.webp 1400w, http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https___hypebeast.com_image_2024_10_22_elon-musk-sued-blade-runner-2049-producers-over-alleged-copyright-infringement-robotaxi-imagery-news-001-1_\u7ed3\u679c-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blade Runner 2049 production company Alcon Entertainment is suing Elon Musk, Tesla and Warner Bros. Discovery for allegedly using AI-generated images of scenes from the film for the launch of the electric vehicle company\u2019s latest self-driving Robotaxi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this copyright infringement case, Alcon filed the lawsuit earlier this week insisting that the film, which starred Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, had no affiliation of any kind with \u201cTesla, X, Musk or any Musk-owned company\u201d since \u201cMusk\u2019s massively amplified, highly politicized, capricious and arbitrary behavior, which sometimes veers into hate speech. Alcon names Musk, Tesla and WBD, accusing all parties of direct copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement and contributory copyright infringement, and false endorsement. The company is seeking an injunction to block the parties and \u201canyone working in concert with them from further copying, displaying, distributing, selling or offering to sell \u2018BR2049\u2019 or protectible elements thereof in connection with Tesla or Musk, or making derivative works thereof for such purposes.\u201d Alcon is also seeking monetary damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit states, \u201cThe financial magnitude of the misappropriation here was substantial. Alcon has spent decades and hundreds of millions of dollars building the \u2018BR2049\u2019 brand into the famous mark that it now is. Prior actual \u2018BR2049\u2019 contracts linking automotive brands to the Picture have had dollar price tags in the eight figures.\u201d At the time, Tesla, Musk nor Warner Bros. Discovery has responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blade Runner 2049 production company Alcon Entertainmen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[216,219],"class_list":["post-9485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car","tag-elon-musk","tag-robotaxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9487,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485\/revisions\/9487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}