2023 ⟶ Getty Images Sues Stability AI in London
On January 17, 2023, Stability AI is sued in London by Getty...
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⚖️ Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against GitHub Copilot
A November 2022 class action lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI alleges that GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered code editing tool trained on public GitHub repositories, violates the copyrights of the repositories' authors, noting that the tool is able to generate source code which matches its training data verbatim, without providing attribution.⟶
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United States🖼️ Getty Images Sues Stability AI in London
On January 17, 2023, Stability AI is sued in London by Getty Images for using its images in their training data without purchasing a license.⟶
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United Kingdom🎨 Artists File Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against AI Image Generators
On January 16, 2023, three artists, Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz, file a class-action Copyright infringement lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt, claiming that these companies have infringed the rights of millions of artists by training AI tools on five billion images scraped from the web without the consent of the original artists.⟶
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United States⚖️ Getty Images Sues Stability AI in US District Court
Getty files another suit against Stability AI in a US district court in Delaware on February 6, 2023. In the suit, Getty again alleges copyright infringement for the use of its images in the training of Stable Diffusion, and further argues that the model infringes Getty's Trademark by generating images with Getty's Watermark.⟶
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United States🎤 Sarah Silverman Files Copyright Lawsuit Against Meta and OpenAI
On July 9, 2023, Sarah Silverman files a class action lawsuit against Meta and OpenAI for copyright infringement for training their large language models on millions of authors' copyrighted works without permission.⟶
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