Disney will see Midjourney's video training data, with a $9 billion claim against Suno as the price list
A stipulation filed this week hands Disney's lawyers Midjourney's video training data, while the precedents that price such claims, from Warner's Suno settlement to the labels' $9 billion ceiling against Suno, are already on the record.
Vincent Jiang · 2 min read
The vault is about to be read. Under a stipulation in Disney v. Midjourney, Midjourney will hand the plaintiffs the video datasets used to train its models, per the order published on October 7, 2026 1. That is the evidence Disney's side will use to price the copying from the company's own files rather than outside guesses. Midjourney's answer in the case leans on fair use, arguing copyright "must give way" and that the studios want to "have it both ways," using generative tools while suing one 6. The company is already producing sampled outputs in the same case: 385 jobs per character, with experts allowed to extrapolate counts to the full population 8.
The price list already exists
The rightsholders' market for settling these claims is on the record. Warner Music settled and licensed Suno in November 2025; UMG licensed Udio a month earlier; all three majors took equity in Stability AI through a $76 million Series B in August, an investment rather than a damages figure 5. Suno's second suit shows the downside: 60,202 recordings, at the $150,000-per-work statutory ceiling "just over $9 billion," against a company valued at $5.4 billion 5. A Munich court has already rejected fair use for an AI music tool outright 5.
The rightsholders' price list runs from $76M in equity to a $9B ceiling
Data
| Statutory ceiling or investment ($B) | |
|---|---|
| Suno suit 1: 560 works, ceiling $84M | $0.08B |
| Stability AI: majors' equity (not damages) | $0.08B |
| Suno suit 2: 60,202 works, just over $9.0B | $9B |
A defendant funding its defense from revenue
Midjourney has no comparable cushion. It is bootstrapped, and The Information reported in March 2026 that it is profitable 7; no cited source carries a revenue figure. Suno~$2.45B — Suno, private, latest valuation ~$2.45B raised more than $775 million to bankroll lawyers and reserves 5. Midjourney's bill, if Disney's experts quantify copying from the transferred datasets and the extrapolated output counts, lands directly on its income statement rather than on a war chest.
Converging on the launch window
The timing compresses. Musk said on X that SpaceX's Grok Bot will route image tasks to Midjourney, alongside Claude Opus 5.5 and Suno, though SpaceXAI has set no timeline for the Midjourney routing 3. The post landed a day after users reported access problems on Grok's apps 4. Midjourney's own office hours have v7 shipping next week, sixteen months after v6 2.
The investor read: discovery, distribution and launch land in the same week. If the stipulated datasets produce a number, the unlicensed-training discount gets its first image-side data point, and licensed-data rivals like Adobe's+3.43% — Adobe, up 3.43 percent today Firefly and the rightsholders hold the other side of that trade. No source yet carries what Disney's experts will claim, so treat any figure as unpriced until filed.
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