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Time of India
09-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
AI Image Generation Copyright: Getty Images and Stability AI face off in British copyright trial that will test AI industry, ET LegalWorld
Advt Advt Join the community of 2M+ industry professionals Subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights & analysis. Download ETLegalWorld App Get Realtime updates Save your favourite articles Scan to download App Getty Images is facing off against artificial intelligence company Stability AI in a London courtroom for the first major copyright trial of the generative AI arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The trial could last for three based in London, owns a widely used AI image-making tool that sparked enthusiasm for the instant creation of AI artwork and photorealistic images upon its release in August 2022. OpenAI introduced its surprise hit chatbot ChatGPT three months Getty has argued that the development of the AI image maker, called Stable Diffusion, involved "brazen infringement" of Getty's photography collection "on a staggering scale."Tech companies have long argued that "fair use" or "fair dealing" legal doctrines in the United States and United Kingdom allow them to train their AI systems on large troves of writings or images. Getty was among the first to challenge those practices when it filed copyright infringement lawsuits in the United States and the United Kingdom in early 2023."What Stability did was inappropriate," Getty CEO Craig Peters told The Associated Press in 2023. He said creators of intellectual property should be asked for permission before their works are fed into AI systems rather than having to participate in an "opt-out regime."Getty's legal team told the court Monday that its position is that the case isn't a battle between the creative and technology industries and that the two can still work together in "synergistic harmony" because licensing creative works is critical to AI's success."The problem is when AI companies such as Stability AI want to use those works without payment," Getty's trial lawyer, Lindsay Lane, said the case was about "straightforward enforcement of intellectual property rights," including copyright, trademark and database Images "recognizes that the AI industry is a force for good but that doesn't justify those developing AI models to ride roughshod over intellectual property rights," Lane AI had a "voracious appetite" for images to train its AI model, but the company was "completely indifferent to the nature of those works," Lane didn't care if images were protected by copyright, had watermarks, were not safe for work or were pornographic and just wanted to get its model to the market as soon as possible, Lane said."This trial is the day of reckoning for that approach," she has argued that the case doesn't belong in the United Kingdom because the training of the AI model technically happened elsewhere, on computers run by U.S. tech giant judge's decision is unlikely to give the AI industry what it most wants, which is expanded copyright exemptions for AI training, said Ben Milloy, a senior associate at UK law firm Fladgate, which is not involved in the it could "strengthen the hand of either party - rights holders or AI developers - in the context of the commercial negotiations for content licensing deals that are currently playing out worldwide," Milloy cases in the U.S. have not yet gone to the years after introducing its open-source technology, Stability confronted challenges in capitalizing on the popularity of the tool, battling lawsuits, misuse and other business Diffusion's roots trace back to Germany, where computer scientists at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich worked with the New York-based tech company Runway to develop the original algorithms. The university researchers credited Stability AI for providing the servers that trained the models, which require large amounts of computing later blamed Runway for releasing an early version of Stable Diffusion that was used to produce abusive sexual images, but also said it would have exclusive control of more recent versions of the AI last year announced what it described as a "significant" infusion of money from new investors including Facebook's former president Sean Parker, who is now chair of Stability's board. Parker also has experience in intellectual property disputes as the co-founder of online music company Napster, which temporarily shuttered in the early 2000s after the record industry and popular rock band Metallica sued over copyright new investments came after Stability's founding CEO Emad Mostaque quit and several top researchers left to form a new German startup, Black Forest Labs, which makes a competing AI image generator.
Time of India
23-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
US Copyright Office Director Lawsuit: Former Copyright Office Director Sues Trump Over Unlawful Firing, ET LegalWorld
Advt Join the community of 2M+ industry professionals Subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights & analysis. Download ETLegalWorld App Get Realtime updates Save your favourite articles Scan to download App The U.S. Copyright Office director fired by the Trump administration sued President Donald Trump and other government officials on Thursday, arguing her firing was unconstitutional and should not be allowed to take effect. Shira Perlmutter said in the lawsuit that her termination by email on May 10 was "blatantly unlawful," and that only the U.S. Congress can remove her from lawsuit, filed in Washington, D.C., federal district court, is the latest in a series of legal clashes between Trump and federal officials he has sought to fire since his inauguration in White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint. A spokesperson for the Copyright Office and an attorney for Perlmutter declined to Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed Trump's firing of two Democratic members of federal labor boards to remain in effect while their legal challenges proceed in a dispute that tests the president's power over independent government agencies. The Copyright Office, a department of the Library of Congress, confirmed on May 12 that the administration had fired Perlmutter by email on May 10. Perlmutter's firing sparked a backlash from Democratic politicians, who said that Congress had "purposely insulated" the Copyright Office from lawsuit said that Perlmutter's firing came a day after the office released a report on the high-stakes intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright law. The office said in the report that technology companies' use of copyrighted works to train AI may not always be protected under U.S. law. Tech companies including OpenAI and Meta Platforms have told the office that being forced to pay copyright holders for their content could cripple the burgeoning U.S. AI asked the court to block the Trump appointees from taking the acting positions and declare that she remains the Copyright Office's director. (Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington; Editing by Leigh Jones and Leslie Adler)
