Blade Runner 2049 maker sues Musk over robotaxi images

The shaper of the movie Blade Runner 2049 has sued Tesla, Elon Musk and Warner Bros Discovery, alleging they utilized imagery from the movie without permission.

Production steadfast Alcon Entertainment claims it had specifically denied a petition from Warner Bros to usage worldly from the movie astatine the motorboat lawsuit for Tesla's long-awaited robotaxi.

Alcon alleges that contempt its refusal Tesla and the different organisers of the lawsuit connected 10 October utilized artificial quality (AI) to make promotional imagery based connected the film.

Tesla and Warner Bros did not instantly reply to requests for remark from BBC News.

The “financial magnitude of the misappropriation present was substantial," the suit said.

"Any prudent marque considering immoderate Tesla concern has to instrumentality Musk’s massively amplified, highly politicised, capricious and arbitrary behaviour, which sometimes veers into hatred speech, into account," it added.

Alcon besides accused the lawsuit organisers of "false endorsement" by suggesting a transportation betwixt the accumulation institution and Tesla.

Warner Bros, which hosted the robotaxi motorboat lawsuit astatine 1 of its movie studios, was besides the distributor of Blade Runner 2049 erstwhile it was released successful 2017.

The highly-anticipated sequel to the 1982 cyberpunk classical Blade Runner, starred Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas and Jared Leto, and won 2 Academy Awards.