Aaron MossBREAKING: Getty Images just filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Stability AI in Delaware District Court. Getty alleges that Stability copied more than 12 million Getty photos to train Stable Diffusion. Full complaint here: https://copyrightlately.com/pdfviewer/getty-images-v-stability-ai-complaint/
Getty also alleges that Stability AI removed or altered copyright management information and infringed Getty's trademarks by reproducing variations of its watermarks in output images.
Getty’s new complaint is much better than the overreaching class action lawsuit I wrote about last month. The focus is where it should be: the input stage ingestion of copyrighted images to train the data. This will be a fascinating fair use battle.
Shriram Krishnamurthi@copyrightlately Unfortunately, it could easily be settled out of court unless one of the parties wants to see a landmark ruling and sticks it out.