The pursuit of “Blade Runner” against Tesla and Warner Bros. may continue, the rules of the federal judge

A trial by Blade Runner 2049 The production company Alcon Entertainment against Tesla and Warner Bros concerning the use of film images during a promotional event can take place, judged a federal judge.

The scope of the complaint, however, was reduced in a decision on Monday evening by judge George Wu to the American district court of California. Wu took the side of the accused by rejecting several of the alcon allegations and by ordering the closer complaint to go to mediation. Still pending is the charge of copyright violation, which stems from the use of the images of the science fiction suite with Ryan Gosling to form AI tools involved in the generation of materials for Tesla.

ALCON continued Warner Bros and Tesla last October after the “We Robot” event of the automaker on the Lot of Warners in Burbank, insisting that companies had ignored its refusal of a request to incorporate the visuals of the film.

Blade Runner 2049The 1982 SCI-FI SCI-Fi suite was distributed by Warner Bros.

ALCON maintains that he refused a studio request to use images of the film. The company’s lawyers said that the leaders had clearly indicated that “in no case” could not by “any affiliation” between the film and the automaker of Elon Musk. The node of the objection of the production company was “a massively amplified, highly politicized, capricious and arbitrary behavior, which sometimes turns into the speech of hatred”.

Despite this directive, an 11-second slide appeared during the presentation of Tesla, Musk specifically alluding to science fiction property in a voiceover.

Tesla and Warner Bros insisted, as Wu noted in his decision, that Alcon “cannot show a substantial similarity between his work protected by copyright and the presentation” We robot “or the 11 -second slide used there.”

Wu noted that the authorization request had been made the same day as the Tesla event, giving Alcon for a short time to answer.

“Since the Musk of the tight and Tesla deadline worked in the light of their last -minute request – and the resulting last minute denial – to use BR2049It is not at all improbable for the applicant to allege the information and the conviction that they used an IA image generator to find the finished product, “wrote Wu.” In addition, the images are not so different that the courtyard can conclude Tesla and Musk could not have been literally copied in the way in which the way is so high. Thus, each of the arguments limited in a timely manner of Tesla and Musk concerning the failure of the theory of “literal copy”.