"Artificial intelligence company Stability AI mostly prevailed against Getty Images Tuesday in a British court battle over intellectual property. During the three-week trial in June, Getty dropped its primary copyright allegations, in a sign that it didn't think they would succeed. But it still pursued the secondary infringement claims. Even if Stability's AI training happened outside the U.K., Getty said offering the Stable Diffusion service to British users amounted to importing unlawful copies of its images into the country."
"Justice Joanna Smith rejected Getty's claims, ruling that Stable Diffusion's AI didn't infringe copyright because it doesn't "store or reproduce any Copyright Works (and has never done so)." Getty also sued for trademark infringement because its watermark appeared on some of the images generated by Stability's chatbot. Among the cases, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by authors while a federal judge dismissed a similar lawsuit from 13 authors against Meta Platforms."
Stability AI mostly prevailed against Getty Images in a British court intellectual property battle. Getty dropped its primary copyright allegations during the three-week June trial but pursued secondary infringement claims alleging importation of unlawful copies when Stable Diffusion was offered to UK users. Justice Joanna Smith rejected Getty's claims, ruling that Stable Diffusion's AI did not infringe copyright because it does not store or reproduce Getty's Copyright Works. Getty also pursued trademark claims over its watermark appearing on images generated by Stability's chatbot. Separate AI-image legal actions include Anthropic's $1.5 billion authors' settlement and lawsuits against Midjourney by Warner Bros., Disney, and Universal.
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