Getty Images v Stability AI (United Kingdom)

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Case Information
Case name	Getty Images (US) Inc. and others v. Stability AI Ltd. (United Kingdom)^[1]
Court	High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, Chancery Division^[1]
Docket	IL-2023-000007; [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch)^[1]
Filed	Not identified in the sources reviewed.
Judge(s)	Mrs Justice Joanna Smith^[1]
Plaintiffs	Getty Images entities; iStockphoto LP; Thomas M. Barwick, Inc.^[1]
Defendants	Stability AI Ltd.^[1]
Case type	Civil copyright proceeding^[1]
Claims / issues	Copyright, database rights, trademarks and passing off^[1]
Status	November 4, 2025: secondary copyright claim dismissed; limited historic trademark infringement found. Later appeal status has not been verified.^[1]

Getty Images (US) Inc. and others v. Stability AI Ltd. (United Kingdom) is the UK proceeding concerning Stable Diffusion, separate from Getty’s U.S. litigation.^[1]

Claims and procedural history

Getty abandoned its training-and-development and outputs copyright claims at trial. The court rejected secondary copyright infringement on the record before it.^[1]

The court found limited trademark infringement involving specified iStock and Getty watermarks in older model outputs; other trademark theories failed. It expressly made no finding about the number of copyright works used in training.^[1]

Related coverage

References

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