NIPC Law

Jane Lambert   Chancery Division (Mrs Justice Joanna Smith) Getty Images (US) Inc and others v Stability AI Ltd (Rev1) [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) (4 Nov 2025) I first mentioned this litigation in Copyright and Artificial Intelligence - Getty Images (US) Inc and others v Stability AI Ltd . on 12 Dec 2023. In that article, I discussed an unsuccessful application by Stability AI Ltd ("Stability") to strike out the claim by Getty Images (US) Inc. and others ("Getty") for copyright, database right and trade mark infringement and passing off under  CPR Part 24 and CPR 3.4  in  Getty Images (US) Inc and others v Stability AI Lt d [2023] EWHC 3090 (Ch) (1 Dec 2023).   Getty had alleged that Stability had scraped millions of high-quality photographic images of such subjects as world events, sporting moments, celebrities, architecture, nature and travel created by hundreds of thousands of photographers over many years and in which copyright was likely to subsis...

Jane Lambert   Chancery Division (Mrs Justice Joanna Smith)  Getty Images (US) Inc and others v Stability AI Lt d [2023] EWHC 3090 (Ch) (1 Dec 2023) The defendant company, Stability AI Ltd., offers to create images to its customers' specifications using a type of artificial intelligence known as "stable diffusion" .  The image in Wikipedia of a spaceman on a horse is an example.  The claimants. Getty Images (US) Inc. and its subsidiaries complain that Stability AI reproduces content from their photo libraries to make such images without their licence.  They have brought proceedings for infringement of copyright, database rights and trade marks and passing off.  Stability AI applied for summary judgment or a strike out of the claim under CPR Part 24  and CPR 3.4 . It also requested further information of the claim under CPR Part 18 .  The Getty companies cross-applied to fix dates for the case management conference, pre-trial review and trial...