Getty Images said in a statement that Stability AI unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright « absent a license to benefit Stability AI’s commercial.
A hot potato: For the second time this week, Stability AI, creator of the art generation tool Stable Diffusion, is being sued over alleged copyright violation for scraping content to train its systems. This time, stock images/video/music provider has « commenced legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice in London » against Stability AI.
said in a statement that Stability AI unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright « absent a license to benefit Stability AI’s commercial interests and to the detriment of the content creators. »
CEO Craig Peters told The Verge that the company had notified Stability AI of its upcoming litigation in the UK. There’s no word on whether a US case will follow.
« The company [Stability AI] made no outreach to to utilize our or our contributors’ material so we’re taking an action to protect our and our contributors’ intellectual property rights, » said Peters.
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It looks like Stability AI’s lawyers will have a busy few months, or years, ahead.
