By Hayleigh Bosher
Publication Date: 2025-12-01 14:00:00
Artificial intelligence companies and the creative industries are locked in an ongoing battle that is playing out in the courts. The common thread that ties all of these lawsuits together is copyright.
There are now over 60 ongoing lawsuits in the USA in which authors and rights holders are suing AI companies. Meanwhile, we’ve recently seen decisions in the first court cases from the UK and Germany – here’s what happened.
Getty Images, a global visual content creator and marketplace, sued Stability AI, an open source generative AI company, in the UK courts. Getty alleged that Stability illegally used its content to train an AI model called Stable Diffusion. Getty is also suing Stability AI in the US and that case is still pending.
It was accepted that Getty’s images were used without permission in the Stable Diffusion training and that this training involved copying. Copyright is the right to stop someone from copying your work. Therefore, you train an AI model on copyrighted…
