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Getty Images abandoned her main state -of -law violation statements against the stability of AI on Wednesday at the High Court of London, narrowing one of the most closely looked at the way in which IA companies use content protected by copyright to train their models.
This decision does not put an end to the case entirely – Getty still continues other complaints as well as a separate trial in the United States – but he highlights the gray areas surrounding the future of property and the use of content in the era of generative AI. Development also one day comes after a The American judge reassured himself with anthropic In a similar dispute on the question of whether the training of AI on books without author authorization violates the law on copyright.
Getty continued the AI stability – the startup behind the stable broadcast of the AI image generator – in January 2023 after going to have gone that stability used millions of images protected by copyright to form its AI model without authorization.
The image database company also said that many works generated by stable dissemination were similar to the content protected by copyright used to train it. Some, said Getty, even had his filigranes on them.
These two statements were abandoned Wednesday morning.
“The training complaint was probably abandoned due to Getty’s failure to establish a sufficient link between the acts of counterfeiting and the British jurisdiction so that the law on copyright to Bordre,” said Ben Maling, partner of the EIP law firm in Techcrunch in an email. “Meanwhile, the exit complaint was probably abandoned due to Getty’s non-establishment to establish that what the reproduced models reflect a substantial part of what was created in the images (for example by a photographer).”
In the closing arguments of Getty, the company’s lawyers said they abandoned these complaints due to weak evidence and a lack of witnesses well informed of the stability of the AI. The company described this strategy decision, allowing it and the court to focus on what Getty believes to be stronger and more winning allegations.
What remains in the Getty trial is a complaint in secondary counterfeit as well as complaints for brand counterfeiting. Regarding the complaint of secondary offense, Getty makes it essentially affirmed that the models of AA themselves could undermine copyright law and that the use of these models in the United Kingdom could constitute articles contravening imports, even if the training has occurred outside the United Kingdom.
“Secondary counterfeit is that which has the greatest relevance for the training of companies in Genai outside the United Kingdom, namely via the models themselves which are potentially” counterfeiting “which are subsequently imported in the United Kingdom,” said Maling.
A spokesperson for AI stability told Techcrunch that the startup was “pleased to see Getty’s decision to delete several complaints after the conclusion of the testimony”.
The spokesperson also noted that stability was convinced that the Getty brand and the transmission of complaints would fail because consumers do not interpret watermark as a commercial message of AI stability.
The American division of Getty also continued the stability of the AI in February 2023 for the violation of brands and copyright. In this case, Getty alleged that stability used up to 12 million images protected by copyright to form his AI model without authorization. The company requests damages for 11,383 works at $ 150,000 per counterfeiting, which would represent a total of $ 1.7 billion.
In addition, AI stability is also named in another complaint alongside Midjourney and Deviantart after a group of visual artists continued the three corporations for copyright violation.
Getty Images has hers AI generative offering which takes advantage of the models of AI formed on Getty Istock Banks of photographs and video libraries. The tool allows users to generate new images and licenses illustrations.
