Alcon Entertainment is suing Elon Musk’s Tesla for copyright infringement, claiming that the car manufacturer used images from the 2017 sci-fi film “Blade Runner 2049” without the production company’s permission.

According to the lawsuit, filed today in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, CA, Alcon alleges that Tesla used these images to generate new visuals for the unveiling of its self-driving Cybercab earlier this month.

A day before the Cybercab event, Telsa and Warner Bros. Discovery—which released the Blade Runner sequel and was hosting the event on its Burbank lot—asked Alcon Entertainment for permission to use images from the film. Alcon refused to cooperate due to concerns about being associated with Musk, whom they described as “problematic,” Tesla, or any of his other companies.

“Any prudent brand considering any Tesla partnership has to take Musk’s massively amplified, highly politicized, capricious and arbitrary behavior, which sometimes veers into hate speech, into account,” the attorneys wrote in their complaint.

However, after Alcon refused to allow Blade Runner 2049 images to be used for the October 10 event, AI image generators were used to create similar images for the event, Alcon’s lawyers contend. (Warn

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Author: Jason Nelson