Setting the Stage: AI, Copyrights, and a Global Showdown A legal earthquake just struck the entertainment world: Hollywood's biggest studios including Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery, have simultaneously filed a blockbuster lawsuit against MiniMax, a Chinese AI unicorn valued at $4 billion. The suit, alleging "willful and brazen" copyright infringement, accuses MiniMax of disregarding U.S. copyright law by treating the studios' copyrighted characters as if those were its own. Far more than just another corporate dust-up, this suit signals the opening of a new front in a high-stakes battle over who will shape and profit from the future of…