last month and now in the US, filed by none other than Getty Images, the world's foremost provider of stock photos.
"This case arises from Stability AI's brazen infringement of Getty Images' intellectual property on a staggering scale,", which was filed last week in a US District Court in Delaware. Getty alleges that Stability AI copied a whopping 12 million images from its collection "without permission" or "compensation."
Gleaning the images is just half the digital distributor's gripe, though. Getty claims Stability even "removed or altered" its copyright management information, "provided false copyright management information, and infringed Getty Images' famous trademarks.
"Getty's new complaint is much better than the overreaching class action lawsuit [filed by the artists] last month,""The focus is where it should be: the input stage ingestion of copyrighted images to train the data," he added. "This will be a fascinating fair use battle."
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