Getty’s financial turmoil highlights fight to preserve copyright value
By Steve Scherer ( October 16, 2026, 20:18 GMT | Comment) -- Getty Images’ financial distress highlights how AI-generated alternatives could squeeze licensing income and creators’ negotiating leverage, experts say. As judges weigh whether the use of copyrighted content in AI training requires permission and payment, businesses built around protected images, music and literary works face growing uncertainty over the future worth of their copyrights.Getty Images’ stock-market collapse and planned bankruptcy are raising concerns about how artificial intelligence could erode the earning power of copyrighted work while courts are still deciding whether AI developers must pay to use it, researchers and artists warn....
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