Tesla We, Robot event screen captureA China-based maker of the film Blade Runner 2049 has sued Tesla, Elon Musk, and Warner Bros Discovery over claims that they used imagery from the movie without permission.
Alcon Entertainment, the production firm behind Blade Runner 2049, says it turned down Warner Bros. ' request to feature content from the movie at Tesla's big reveal tomorrow evening of its long-rumored robocar (now apparently dubbed FSD [Full Self-Driving]).
Alcon claims that Tesla, along with other organizers of the 10 October event, used artificial intelligence (AI) to generate imagery for the promotional film despite Alcon denying them permission.
The BBC News has contacted Tesla and Warner Bros for comment.
The lawsuit said: "The financial magnitude of the misappropriation was significant.
“Any brand with the slightest amount of prudence talking to Tesla about anything has to take Musk’s hugely escalated, political, unreliable, and erratic – sometimes right on the verge of hate speech -- behavior into proper consideration,” it continued.
Alcon also alleged that the event organizers were engaging in "false endorsement" by implying a relationship between it as a production company and Tesla.
Warner Bros, which hosted the robRobotaxiveiling at one of its movie studios, is also the distributor of Blade Runner 2049 from 2017.
The sequel to the iconic 1982 cyberpunk thriller Blade Runner, which starred Ryan Gosling (First Man), Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, and Jared Leto, won two Oscars.
Musk has alluded to the original film several times in the past, even once suggesting that it served as a muse of sorts for Tesla's Cybertruck.The Blade Runner brand still has a future on TV with th Alcon curducing spa off television show 209for 9.
Meanwhile, the writer/director of 200the 4 sci-fi movie I, Robot al, leged that Mr Musk took inspiration from its hub designs for humanoid machines and self-driving cars. Alex Proyas caught sight of an event unrelated to Tesla robotaxi, titled We, Robot (a play on the title of an Isaac Asimov short story collection) are Inpost on X, seen over 8 million times: "Mr Proyas had some words for him Elon I have my designs back pl, please? However, online scepticism met the claim that he himself makes a derivative film. The
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