The UK judge’s decision shows Getty Images narrowly winning its trademark infringement argument but losing its copyright claim against Stability AI.
Artificial intelligence company Stability AI mostly prevailed against Tuesday in a British court battle over intellectual property.
Seattle-based , which owns an extensive online library of images and video, had filed suit against Stability AI in a widely watched case that went to trial at Britain’s High Court in June.
The case was among a wave of lawsuits filed by movie studios, authors and artists challenging tech companies’ use of their works to train AI chatbots.
According to a judge’s ruling released Tuesday, Getty narrowly won its argument that Stability had infringed its trademark, but lost its claim for secondary infringement of copyright.
Both sides claimed victory.
“This is a significant win for intellectual property owners,” said in a statement.
Shares of Getty dipped 3% before the opening bell in the U.S.
Stability said it was pleased with the ruling.
“This final ruling ultimately resolves the copyright concerns that were the core issue,” Stability General Counsel Christian Dowell said.
Getty argued that the development of Stability’s AI image maker, called Stable Diffusion, was a “brazen infringement” of its library of images “on a staggering scale.
