UK High Court removes Getty's class representative in Stability AI copyright dispute
17 ott 2026 · Raccolto automaticamente da fonti pubbliche. Non revisionato da una persona.
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What happened
Mrs Justice Joanna Smith removed photographer Thomas Barwick's company as representative claimant for the 50,000-plus Getty-contributor photographers in the UK copyright dispute with Stability AI.
The ruling
The judge found the court could not be satisfied that any person qualified as a class member, because the works used to train Stable Diffusion cannot be identified; she accepted Stability AI's argument that the putative class lacked a same interest.
Status
A court ruling on the representative-claim issue; it is a procedural setback for the claimants, not a ruling on the merits of the training-data infringement claim.
Fonti
- Blow for Getty Images after UK judge removes class representative in copyright dispute with Stability AI — Global Legal Post (secondary)