Source: CMU
Stability AI has argued that it can’t be held liable for copyright infringement in the UK, because training of its Stable Diffusion AI platform took place on servers in the US. Getty Images says that the company infringed its copyrights by training its AI model on pictures it owns without permission.
Stability AI last week filed a defence in its UK copyright legal battle with Getty Images. Stability argues that it is not liable for copyright infringement within the UK because the training of its Stable Diffusion platform happens in the US. Meanwhile, any images generated by the platform for UK users which are similar to Getty-owned pictures are not direct copies and should be considered “pastiche”, which would allow the AI company to rely on a copyright exception.
In a lawsuit filed with the London courts last May, Getty accuses Stability of making copies of its photos without permission when training Stable Diffusion. Although not a music case, it is an important legal battle testing the copyright obligations of generative AI companies under UK law. As a result, it is of interest to all copyright industries, including the music industry.
“Stable Diffusion was not trained in the UK and we expect to be fully vindicated at trial”, a spokesperson for the AI company told Law360 last week, after the formal defence papers had been filed. In its legal filings, Stability says that the training of Stable Diffusion took place on an Amazon Web Services cloud computing cluster located in the US, a few thousand miles away from the jurisdiction of the London courts.
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