Landmark Copyright Trial at the Uk High Court: Getty Images V Stability Ai

Getty Images owns an image library which contains millions of images and videos on its websites. The images and videos contain the Getty watermark. The Getty image library is arranged systematically and Getty has invested hundreds of millions of US dollars in their library. Stability AI developed and launched a deep learning, text-to-image and image-to-image AI model, which it named ‘Stable Diffusion’. Stable Diffusion was developed by using datasets of images scraped from the internet and which included a large number of images from the Getty library. Getty claims that around 11 million of its copyright protected works were used to train Stability Diffusion from around August 2022 and sued Stability for copyright and trademark infringement, passing off and database right infringement in 2023. For more information, click here.