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Stability AI wins initial dismissal of most copyright, right-of-publicity claims in US litigation

( October 30, 2023, 18:30 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Stability AI has won the initial dismissal of most copyright and right-of-publicity allegations after a federal judge in San Francisco found the plaintiffs' complaint was "defective" for numerous reasons.  The judge allowed the plaintiffs permission to amend their claims against the image-generating artificial intelligence system, which was trained using 5 billion images scraped from the Internet. "Finding that the Complaint is defective in numerous respects, I largely GRANT defendants’ motions to dismiss and defer the special motion to strike. Plaintiffs are given leave to amend to provide clarity regarding their theories of how each defendant separately violated their copyrights, removed or altered their copyright management information, or violated their rights of publicity and plausible facts in support," US District Judge William Orrick wrote in an order. Orrick did allow one claim, for direct copyright infringement, to move forward....

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