--- title: "Disney will see Midjourney's video training data, with a $9 billion claim against Suno as the price list" description: "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." publisher: "The Inference" section: "Policy" published: 2026-10-09T03:09:13.238Z modified: 2026-10-09T03:09:13.238Z canonical: https://theinference.org/article/disney-will-see-midjourney-s-video-training-data-with-a-9-billion-claim-against-suno-as-the-price-list language: en keywords: "Copyright, Generative AI, Litigation, Midjourney, Suno" --- # 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. The vault is about to be read. Under a stipulation in Disney v. [Midjourney](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/midjourney), Midjourney will hand the plaintiffs the video datasets used to train its models, [per the order published on October 7, 2026](https://wpnews.pro/news/by-stipulation-midjourney-will-share-video-training-data-with-disney-plaintiffs) [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](https://variety.com/2025/film/news/midjourney-disney-ai-training-lawsuit-1236481167/) 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](https://theinference.org/article/suno-s-licensed-pivot-now-carries-a-9bn-legal-ceiling) is on the record. [Warner Music settled and licensed Suno in November 2025](https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/with-a-new-cfo-three-licensing-deals-and-775m-raised-whats-stopping-5-4b-valued-suno-from-an-ipo/); UMG licensed [Udio](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/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](https://theinference.org/article/sony-and-universal-price-suno-s-licensed-restart-at-a-9-billion-ceiling) 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]. *Chart: **The rightsholders' price list runs from $76M in equity to a $9B ceiling** Columns comparing the statutory damage ceilings in Suno's two US lawsuits with the majors' equity investment in Stability AI.* *Statutory maximums at $150,000 per work in Suno's two US suits; the Stability AI bar is the majors' August equity investment, a license-by-investment precedent, not a damages ceiling. Source: Music Business Worldwide, October 7, 2026. [5]* ## 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](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/midjourney-profitable-chasing-hardware-dreams-can-survive-google) [7]; no cited source carries a revenue figure. [Suno](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/suno) 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](https://thenextweb.com/news/grok-bot-claude-opus-midjourney-suno-musk), 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](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/adobe)'s 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. ## Takeaway Discovery gives Disney's lawyers Midjourney's own video training files, and the on-record precedents, from Warner's Suno settlement to the labels' $9B statutory ceiling, will set the price; no damages figure is filed yet. ## Sources 1. [Web Pulse, "By stipulation, Midjourney will share video training data with Disney plaintiffs", 7 October 2026](https://wpnews.pro/news/by-stipulation-midjourney-will-share-video-training-data-with-disney-plaintiffs) 2. [1ai.net, "Midjourney v7 to release next week", October 2026](https://www.1ai.net/en/newsflashes/31916.html) 3. [The Next Web, "Musk's Grok Bot will use Anthropic's Claude, Midjourney and Suno models", 8 October 2026](https://thenextweb.com/news/grok-bot-claude-opus-midjourney-suno-musk) 4. [AI Weekly, "Musk: Grok Bot to Route Tasks to Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney, Suno", 8 October 2026](https://aiweekly.co/alerts/musk-grok-bot-to-route-tasks-to-claude-opus-55-midjourney-suno) 5. [Music Business Worldwide, "With a new CFO, three licensing deals, and $775M+ raised, what's stopping $5.4B-valued Suno from an IPO?", 7 October 2026](https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/with-a-new-cfo-three-licensing-deals-and-775m-raised-whats-stopping-5-4b-valued-suno-from-an-ipo/) 6. [Variety, "Midjourney Says Disney Cannot Prevent AI Training and Wants to 'Have It Both Ways'", 6 August 2025](https://variety.com/2025/film/news/midjourney-disney-ai-training-lawsuit-1236481167/) 7. [The Information, "Midjourney Is Profitable and Chasing Hardware Dreams. But Can It Survive Google?", 27 March 2026](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/midjourney-profitable-chasing-hardware-dreams-can-survive-google) 8. [JD Supra (ACEDS, Kelly Twigger), "Disney v. Midjourney: When the Gen AI Output Is the Evidence", 2 September 2026](https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/disney-v-midjourney-when-the-gen-ai-9227516/) --- Disney will see Midjourney's video training data, with a $9 billion claim against Suno as the price list — The Inference. Canonical: https://theinference.org/article/disney-will-see-midjourney-s-video-training-data-with-a-9-billion-claim-against-suno-as-the-price-list