( July 1, 2026, 3:02 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Artificial intelligence video and image company Midjourney Inc. asked a federal judge in California to review a magistrate judge’s ruling limiting discovery into whether various production studios are also training artificial intelligence models on copyrighted works, saying the evidence goes to fair use and unclean hands defenses and there is no basis for a distinction between public-facing uses and internal uses....