TY  - CASE
TI  - Getty Images (US) Inc v. Stability AI Ltd: UK High Court Judgment
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/11//
PB  - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary (England and Wales)
AB  - The UK High Court delivered the first UK judgment on whether training an AI image model on copyright-protected images constitutes infringement in November 2025. The court found no primary copyright infringement because the training process occurred outside UK territory, and accepted that diffusion models do not store reproductions of their training images. Limited trade mark infringement was found in relation to earlier Stable Diffusion versions that reproduced Getty watermarks in outputs. The judgment establishes UK territorial reasoning as the operative precedent for training-data cases.
KW  - ip-and-copyright
KW  - training-data
KW  - image-generation
KW  - content-provenance
UR  - https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/getty-images-v-stability-ai/
LA  - en
ER  -