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In Stability AI copyright case, UK judge throws cold water on class claims

By Melissa Ritti ( January 14, 2025, 13:56 GMT | Insight) -- Efforts by a US-based photographer and his company to remain in a purported UK class action by Getty Images against Stability AI took a hit this morning when a judge there found “no basis on which the court can be satisfied that any particular person qualifies as a member of the class” and that her court, by extension, lacks “jurisdiction to permit” the proposed representative claim by Thomas Barwick.In an important procedural ruling this morning a UK judge signaled her general wariness over allowing Getty Images’ copyright infringement litigation against Stability AI to proceed as a class action....

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