Judgment in Getty Images v Stability AI seen as a setback for copyright owners as calls grow for new UK rules on AI training data
A London-based artificial intelligence company has won a closely watched High Court case that tested whether AI developers can lawfully train their models using vast libraries of copyrighted material.
Stability AI, whose board includes Avatar film-maker James Cameron, successfully defended a lawsuit brought by Getty Images, which alleged that the company had infringed copyright by scraping millions of its photographs to train the image-generation model Stable Diffusion.
Mrs Justice Joanna Smith found that Getty had failed to prove that the training took place in the UK and ruled that the resulting AI model did not constitute an “infringing copy” under existing law. Getty did, however, succeed on limited trademark claims after some AI-generated images were found to contain replicas of the Getty watermark.
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