BREAKING: 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 Images v. Stability AI - Complaint

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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.
@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.
@copyrightlately That copy doesn't provide a case number as it isn't court/PACER stamped. Did they not electronically file?
@copyrightlately Getty doesn't fuck around. I suspect they make more money from threatening to sue than they do from licensing images. I was one of their victims. I paid more to settle for using a half-dozen images while blogging about news stories than I've ever spent on stock photos.
@copyrightlately Never thought I'd be rooting for Getty Images but here we are ...
@copyrightlately good lord the typos in that filing haha.