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Alcon settles Blade Runner AI-image claims against Warner Bros. Discovery; Tesla case continues

5 nov. 2026 · Collecté automatiquement à partir de sources publiques. Non vérifié par une personne.

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What happened

Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery have reached a settlement resolving Alcon's copyright claims against the studio, The Hollywood Reporter reported on 5 November 2026. A court filing stated only that "Alcon and WBD have reached a settlement"; terms were not disclosed. Alcon's copyright claim against Tesla and Elon Musk is unaffected and continues.

Background

Alcon sued Tesla, Musk and Warner Bros. Discovery in October 2024 (C.D. Cal. No. 2:24-cv-09033-GW-RAO) after Tesla's "We, Robot" Cybercab event on 10 October 2024, held on the Warner Bros. studio lot, displayed an 11-second slide with an AI-generated image resembling a scene from Blade Runner 2049. Alcon says Warner Bros. Discovery asked permission to use film imagery the day before the event and Alcon refused hours before it began; the image appeared anyway, with Musk referring to the film from the stage. Alcon alleged Tesla fed film imagery into an AI image generator.

Procedural posture

The court dismissed Alcon's direct copyright, vicarious infringement and false-endorsement claims against Warner Bros. Discovery, leaving a contributory copyright infringement claim against the studio; trademark claims against all three defendants were dismissed in 2025. In February 2026 Judge George Wu said in a tentative ruling that Alcon had a "seemingly valid and plausible theory" of direct copyright infringement against Tesla and Musk and that it was too early to decide fair use. The settlement resolves only the claims against Warner Bros. Discovery; the direct copyright claim against Tesla and Musk proceeds.

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