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12-06-2025
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AI侵權大戰開打：迪士尼聯合環球提告Midjourney、Getty控告Stability AI侵權
好萊塢巨擘迪士尼與環球影業聯手控告AI圖像生成平台Midjourney侵權，稱其濫用版權圖像生成著名角色圖像。 此外，知名圖庫蓋帝（Getty）圖像控告Stability AI侵權訴訟本週於倫敦開庭，美國聯邦法官亦批准《紐約時報》和其他新聞媒體可以繼續對OpenAI和微軟提起版權訴訟。 以上幾起媒體公司和科技公司的訴訟，可能影響未來影視媒體產業與AI生成平台的合作關係，甚至影響相關法律立法。 好萊塢影視巨頭與人工智慧生成平台的版權大戰正式開打，迪士尼（Disney）和康卡斯特（Comcast）旗下的環球影業（Universal）於美國時間週三（11日）聯合對知名人工智慧生成圖像平台Midjourney提起版權侵權訴訟。 這是好萊塢大型製片公司，首次對生成式AI技術製造商採取法律行動，訴訟文件中直指Midjourney是「抄襲的無底洞」。 與此同時，蓋帝圖像（Getty Images）與Stability AI的版權訴訟案也於6月9日在倫敦高等法院開庭審理，成為生成式AI產業的首場重大版權審判。 NBC環球集團執行副總裁兼總法律顧問Kim Harris表示，公司提起訴訟是為了「保護所有藝術家的辛勤勞動成果，他們的作品為我們帶來了娛樂和啟發，也保護了我們在內容上投入的大量資金」。 影視製作公司首次對AI生成圖像平台提告 《美聯社》報導，迪士尼和環球影業6月11日在洛杉磯聯邦法院提起的聯合版權訴訟中，指控總部位於加州舊金山的AI生成圖像平台Midjourney，盜取兩家好萊塢製片廠的圖庫，生成並分發其著名角色的「無數未經授權的副本」。 其中包括《星際大戰》系列的「黑武士」達斯維達（Darth Vader）、《冰雪奇緣》的艾莎（Elsa），以及《神偷奶爸》的小小兵等角色。 訴狀中寫道： Midjourney是典型的版權搭便車者和抄襲的無底洞。盜版就是盜版，無論侵權圖像或影片是用AI還是其他技術製作的，都不會因此減少其侵權性質。 迪士尼執行副總裁兼首席法務官古鐵雷斯（Horacio Gutierrez）在聲明中表示：「我們對AI技術的前景持樂觀態度，並對其如何作為促進人類創造力的工具負責任地使用充滿信心，但盜版就是盜版，儘管這是一間人工智慧公司所做的，並不代表著它就不是侵權。」 Midjourney是一家成立於2021年的AI圖像生成公司，由大衛‧霍爾茲（David Holz）創立，總部位於舊金山。 《路透社》指出，霍爾茲在2022年接受《富比士》採訪時表示，他只是透過「大規模網路搜刮」（a big scrape of the Internet）建立了公司的資料庫。 他在訪問中也提到，「目前還沒有辦法取得一億張圖片並知道它們的來源。如果圖片中嵌入了關於版權所有者之類的元資料就好了。但這根本不可能實現……目前還沒有註冊系統。」 Midjourney允許數百萬註冊用戶透過文字提示生成圖像，其服務在2022年7月發布後引發了AI藝術品即時創作的熱潮，並透過付費訂閱服務營利，在去年產生3億美元的營收。 蓋帝圖像和Stability AI，首例AI版權侵佔訴訟 另一方面，知名圖像供應媒體蓋帝圖像圖像與Stability AI的版權訴訟案於週一（9日）在倫敦高等法院開庭審理，這是生成式A面臨的首場重大版權審判。 綜合《路透社》和《衛報》報導，總部位於西雅圖的蓋帝圖像指控Stability AI使用其圖像來「訓練」其Stable Diffusion系統，該系統可以從文字輸入生成圖像。 蓋帝圖像指控Stable Diffusion的開發涉及對其圖庫的「大規模厚顏無恥的侵權」，表示Stability AI未經允許，非法抓取蓋帝圖片庫來訓練Stable Diffusion系統，並指出其生成圖像中，甚至出現蓋帝（Getty）的浮水印，嚴重侵犯智慧財產權。 蓋帝圖像對Stability AI的訴訟案也被視為生成式AI產業的首場重大版權審判。《美聯社》報導，審判可能持續三週，法官將在審判後作出書面判決。 蓋帝圖像執行長彼得斯（Craig Peters）2023年曾向美聯社表示，「Stability所做的是不當的。」他指出，智慧財產權的創作者在其作品被導入AI系統之前應該被徵求許可，而不是必須參與「選擇退出制度（opt-out regime）」。 蓋帝圖像的法務團隊在法庭上表示，這個案件不是創意產業和科技產業之間的對戰，兩者仍可以「協同合作」，因為授權創意作品對AI的成功至關重要。 蓋帝圖像的審判律師蓮恩（Lindsay Lane）表示，「問題在於，Stability AI等人工智慧公司想要不付費的使用這些作品。」 Stability AI是一家總部位於倫敦的AI公司，擁有廣泛使用的AI圖像製作工具Stable Diffusion，公司董事包括創作電影《阿凡達》和《泰坦尼克號》的著名電影導演詹姆斯·卡麥隆（James Cameron）。該公司已籌集數億美元的資金，並在2025年3月宣佈獲得全球最大廣告公司WPP的投資。 過往AI剽竊版權爭議 《美聯社》指出，AI公司長期以來一直辯稱，美國和英國的「合理使用」（fair use）或「公平交易」（fair dealing）法律原則允許它們利用大量文字或圖像訓練其AI系統，然而，這一論點面臨越來越多的挑戰。 2024年加州聯邦法官裁定，10名藝術家對Midjourney、Stability AI和其他公司提起的版權侵權訴訟中，這些AI公司複製和儲存他們的作品在公司伺服器上，並可能因未經許可使用而承擔責任的論點是合理的。 美國《時代》雜誌則在在Midjourney面臨的集體訴訟中，包括藝術家麥克南（Kelly McKernan）在內的原告發現，用戶將該藝術家的姓名作為關鍵字輸入Midjourney，產生了極其相似的藝術作品。 麥克南在2023年告訴《時代》雜誌：「這些公司正在從我們的無償勞動中瘋狂獲利。」 有望引領AI生成平台和媒體公司簽署授權協議 儘管存在法律爭議，一些媒體公司和AI公司已經開始探索合作模式。許多大型科技公司越來越希望達成授權協議，為其AI系統所需的內容付費。 《時代》雜誌分析，如果迪士尼和環球影業所聯合提起的訴訟案獲勝，許多AI公司可能必須使用授權內容從頭重新訓練其視覺模型。AI影片新創公司Moonvalley執行長塔魯克達（Naeem Talukdar）表示，如果判決結果明確，好萊塢實際上可能會加速使用基於授權內容所建構的AI模型趨勢。 AI公司也正在透過政府政策尋求另一條道路，以保持其按照自己意願訓練模型的能力。今年1月，OpenAI向白宮發送備忘錄，表示應該「保留」（preserved）其使用版權材料上進行訓練的權限。 在英國，政府宣佈計劃讓AI公司能夠使用任何版權作品，除非權利持有者「明確選擇退出」，這引發了包括披頭四成員保羅‧麥卡尼（Paul McCartney）和流行歌手杜娃黎波（Dua Lipa）等明星的強烈反對。英國上議院亦於6月2日第四次否決了該項立法。 此外，美國也有類似的版權爭議正在進行中。《美聯社》報導，聯邦法官批准《紐約時報》和其他新聞媒體可以繼續對OpenAI和微軟（Microsoft）提起版權訴訟，要求終止使用他們的新聞報導來訓練人工智慧聊天機器人的做法。 《紐約時報》指控OpenAI及其商業夥伴微軟透過有效竊取其記者價值數十億美元的作品，威脅了其生計，在某些情況下甚至向生成式AI用戶逐字輸出《紐約時報》的材料。 新聞來源 延伸閱讀 【加入關鍵評論網會員】每天精彩好文直送你的信箱，每週獨享編輯精選、時事精選、藝文週報等特製電子報。還可留言與作者、記者、編輯討論文章內容。立刻點擊免費加入會員！ 核稿編輯：翁世航
Express Tribune
11-06-2025
- Business
- Express Tribune
Are copyright laws a threat to AI industry?
Getty accused Stability AI of using its images to train its system. PHOTO: File Getty Images' landmark copyright lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI began at London's High Court on Monday, with Getty rejecting Stability AI's contention the case posed a threat to the generative AI industry. Seattle-based Getty, which produces editorial content and creative stock images and video, accuses Stability AI of using its images to "train" its Stable Diffusion system, which can generate images from text inputs. Getty, which is bringing a parallel lawsuit against Stability AI in the United States, says Stability AI unlawfully scraped millions of images from its websites and used them to train and develop Stable Diffusion. Stability AI – which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and in March announced investment by the world's largest advertising company, WPP – is fighting the case and denies infringing any of Getty's rights. Before the trial began on Monday, Stability AI's spokesperson said "the wider dispute is about technological innovation and freedom of ideas". "Artists using our tools are producing works built upon collective human knowledge, which is at the core of fair use and freedom of expression," the spokesperson said. In court filings, Stability AI lawyer Hugo Cuddigan said Getty's lawsuit posed "an overt threat to Stability's whole business and the wider generative AI industry". Getty's lawyers said that argument was incorrect and their case was about upholding intellectual property rights. "It is not a battle between creatives and technology, where a win for Getty Images means the end of AI," Getty's lawyer Lindsay Lane told the court. "The two industries can exist in synergistic harmony because copyright works and database rights are critical to the advancement and success of AI ... the problem is when AI companies such as Stability want to use those works without payment." Getty's case is one of several lawsuits brought in Britain, the US and elsewhere over the use of copyright-protected material to train AI models, after ChatGPT and other AI tools became widely available more than two years ago. Creative industries are grappling with the legal and ethical implications of AI models that can produce their own work after being trained on existing material. Prominent figures including Elton John have called for greater protections for artists. Lawyers say Getty's case will have a major impact on the law, as well as potentially informing government policy on copyright protections relating to AI. Reuters
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
London AI firm says Getty copyright case poses ‘overt threat' to industry
A London-based artificial intelligence company, Stability AI, has claimed that a copyright case brought by the global photography agency Getty Images represents an 'overt threat' to the generative AI industry. Getty's case against Stability AI for copyright and trademark infringement relating to its vast photography archives reached the high court in London on Monday. Stability allows users to generate images using text prompts, and its directors include James Cameron, the Oscar-winning film director of Avatar and Titanic. But Getty called the people who were training the AI system 'a bunch of tech geeks' and claimed they were indifferent to the problems their innovation might create. Stability countered by alleging that Getty was using 'fanciful' legal routes and spending approximately £10m to fight a technology it feared was 'an existential threat' to its business. Related: The 'death of creativity'? AI job fears stalk advertising industry Getty represents the work of almost 600,000 content creators globally. It alleges Stability trained its image generation model on its vast database of copyrighted photographs. As a result the program, called Stability Diffusion, outputs images with Getty Images watermarks still on them. Getty alleges that Stability was 'completely indifferent to what they fed into the training data'. It told the court the system amounted to 'sticking our trademark on pornography' and 'AI rubbish'. Lawyers for Getty said the dispute over the unlicensed use of thousands of its photographs, including images of celebrities, politicians and news events, 'is not a battle between creatives and technology, where a win for Getty Images means the end of AI'. They added: 'The problem is when AI companies such as Stability want to use those works without payment.' Lindsay Lane KC, representing Getty Images, said: 'This was a bunch of tech geeks who were so excited by AI that they were indifferent to any of the dangers or problems it presents.' In submissions to the court on Monday Getty claimed Stability had trained its image generation model on databases that contained child sexual abuse material. Stability is fighting the overall Getty claim and its lawyer said the allegations relating to child sexual abuse material were 'repugnant'. A spokesperson for Stability AI said it was committed to preventing misuse of its technology, 'particularly in the creation and dissemination of harmful content, including CSAM [child sexual abuse material]'. It said it had robust safeguards 'to enhance our safety standards to protect against bad actors'. The case comes amid a wider campaign from artists, writers and musicians, including Elton John and Dua Lipa, to protect their copyright from alleged theft by generative AI companies, which then use it to allow their customers to create new pictures, music or text. The UK parliament is locked in a similar dispute after the government proposed that copyright holders would have to opt out of their material being used to train algorithms and produce AI-generated content, otherwise it would be free to use by tech companies. 'Getty Images, of course, recognises that the AI industry overall may be a force for good, but that doesn't justify allowing those developing AI models to ride roughshod over intellectual property rights,' said Lane. The trial, which is scheduled to run for several weeks, will focus in part on the use of images by celebrated photographers, including photos of the former Liverpool football coach Jürgen Klopp taken by the award-winning British sports photographer Andrew Livesey; a picture of the Chicago Cubs baseball team by Gregory Shamus, an American sports photographer; a photo of the actor and musician Donald Glover by Alberto Rodriguez; and photos of the actor Eric Dane and film director Christopher Nolan by Andreas Rentz. Seventy-eight thousand pages of evidence have been disclosed in the case and AI experts are being called to give evidence from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Freiberg in Germany.
Indian Express
10-06-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
Getty Images and Stability AI face off in British copyright trial that will test AI industry
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 industry. Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The trial could last for three weeks followed by a written decision from the judge expected at a later date. Stability, 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 later. Seattle-based 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 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. She said the case was about 'straightforward enforcement of intellectual property rights,' including copyright, trademark and database rights. Getty 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 said. Stability AI had a 'voracious appetite' for images to train its AI model, but was 'completely indifferent to the nature of those works,' Lane said. Stability didn't care if images were protected by copyright, had watermarks, were not safe for work or were pornographic — it 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 said. Stability lawyers are expected to make their opening arguments Tuesday. They say in a prepared written argument that Getty's claims 'represent an overt threat to Stability's whole business, and the wider generative AI industry.' Stability 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 Amazon. The company also argues that 'only a tiny proportion' of the random outputs of its AI image-generator 'look at all similar' to Getty's works. Once the trial concludes later this month, the 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 case. But 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 said. Similar cases in the U.S. have not yet gone to trial. In 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 problems. Stable 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 model. Stability 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 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 violations. Hollywood director James Cameron, whose films include 'Titanic' and 'Avatar' is also a Stability board member. The 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.
The Hindu
10-06-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Getty Images and Stability AI face off in British copyright trial that will test AI industry
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 industry. Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The trial could last for three weeks followed by a written decision from the judge expected at a later date. Stability, 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 later. Seattle-based 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 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. She said the case was about 'straightforward enforcement of intellectual property rights,' including copyright, trademark and database rights. Getty 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 said. Stability AI had a 'voracious appetite' for images to train its AI model, but was "completely indifferent to the nature of those works,' Lane said. Stability didn't care if images were protected by copyright, had watermarks, were not safe for work or were pornographic — it 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 said. Stability lawyers are expected to make their opening arguments Tuesday. They say in a prepared written argument that Getty's claims 'represent an overt threat to Stability's whole business, and the wider generative AI industry.' Stability 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 Amazon. The company also argues that 'only a tiny proportion' of the random outputs of its AI image-generator 'look at all similar' to Getty's works. Once the trial concludes later this month, the 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 case. But 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 said. Similar cases in the U.S. have not yet gone to trial. In 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 problems. Stable 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 power. Stability 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 model. Stability 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 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 violations. Hollywood director James Cameron, whose films include 'Titanic' and 'Avatar' is also a Stability board member. The 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.
