Getty renews attack on Stability AI as copyright claim reaches UK appeal court
By Patricia Figueiredo ( November 11, 2026, 13:35 GMT | Insight) -- Stock image library Getty Images told a London court on Wednesday that Stability AI's image-generation model can be considered an “infringing copy” even if it does not contain the protected images used to train it. Getty, seeking to revive its UK copyright claim against Stability AI at the Court of Appeal, argued that a lower court had wrongly focused on the finished AI model rather than the copying of copyrighted materials involved in making it.Getty Images has appeared in a UK court in a bid to revive its copyright claim against Stability AI, arguing that an image-generation AI model trained abroad can be an “infringing copy” even if it does not contain the photographs used to train it....
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