Case tracker · Copyright & training data
Getty Images v. Stability AI Ltd.
- AI system / company
- Stability AI "Stable Diffusion" image generator
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom (and United States)
- Court / regulator
- High Court of Justice (England & Wales); parallel U.S. action
- Status
- Ruling issued
What happened
Getty Images sued Stability AI alleging its images were scraped to train Stable Diffusion, asserting copyright, database-right, trademark and passing-off claims. In November 2025 the English High Court largely rejected the copyright claims, holding the model contains no reproductions of the works, but found limited trademark infringement where outputs reproduced the Getty watermark. A parallel U.S. case is ongoing.
About copyright & training data cases
Claims that generative-AI models were trained on copyrighted works — articles, books, images — without permission or compensation.
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