"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."
"Rebecca Newman, legal director at Addleshaw Goddard, said it highlights that "the UK's secondary copyright regime is not strong enough to protect its creators." Evidence presented in court showed that Getty's images had been used to train Stability's model, which creates pictures from text prompts. Getty argued that Stability was "completely indifferent" to what it ingested, but the judge said the dispute underscored a wider societal question about "where to strike the balance between the creative industries and the AI sector.""
A London-based AI company won a High Court case testing whether AI developers can lawfully train models using copyrighted material. Mrs Justice Joanna Smith found Getty had failed to prove that the training took place in the UK and held that the resulting AI model did not constitute an "infringing copy" under current law. Getty succeeded on limited trademark claims after AI-generated images contained replicas of the Getty watermark. Evidence showed Getty images were used to train Stable Diffusion. The judgement is seen as diminishing copyright owners' ability to control use of their work and has increased calls for new UK rules on AI training data. Public figures including Elton John, Kate Bush, Dua Lipa and Kazuo Ishiguro urged ministers to protect creative rights, while technology firms argued for broad access to copyrighted data to build generative models.
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