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In Getty Images (US) Inc v Stability AI Ltd (2025), the court examined whether Stability AI unlawfully used Getty Images’ copyrighted works to train its AI models. Getty Images argued that Stability AI’s data scraping and reproduction of protected images constituted copyright infringement.
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🏛️ Court: High Court (Chancery Division)
🗓️ Judgment Date: 14 January 2025
🗂️ Citation: [2025] EWHC 38 (Ch), 2025 WL 00090926
📍 Jurisdiction: United Kingdom
The case of Getty Images (US) Inc v Stability AI Ltd brought forward complex legal issues at the intersection of copyright law and artificial intelligence.
The dispute questioned whether AI-generated content could legally be trained on copyrighted material without explicit authorisation, challenging fundamental principles of intellectual property law.
One of the key legal issues revolved around the concept of copyright infringement. Getty Images argued that Stability AI unlawfully scraped and used its vast library of copyrighted images to train its AI models.
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