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Getty Images drops Stability AI copyright infringement claims from UK trial

By Frank Hersey ( June 25, 2025, 11:12 GMT | Insight) -- Getty Images has dropped the direct copyright infringement allegations against image generator Stability AI in the first day of closing at the landmark High Court trial in London. It continues to argue its case on trademark infringement, passing off, secondary copyright infringement and licensing issues, but the decision represents a setback for the UK’s creative sector, which had hoped for clear case law to offer a blanket of copyright protection in the UK from AI models' web scraping.Getty Images today dropped a major part of its UK lawsuit against generative AI company Stability AI in the closing stages of a three-week trial....

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