Get AI Stability Sues, The Fate Of The AI Industry Is At Stake!

JAKARTA - Getty Images filed a major copyright lawsuit against artificial intelligence (AI) AI company starting trial at the London High Court on Monday, June 9. Getty confirmed that the lawsuit is not a threat to the generative AI industry, but a form of protection for intellectual property rights.

Get it, a Seattle company that produces editorial content as well as creative stock images and videos, accuses AI's stabilities of using millions of images of it to train their AI system, Stable Diffusion, without permission.

Stable Diffusion is an AI system capable of producing images based on text input. Make sure to file a similar lawsuit in the United States against AI Stabilities, on the charge that AI's stabilities are scraping Getty sites and using them illegally for the development of their technology.

Meanwhile, AI Stability, which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and in March 2025 received an investment injection from the world's largest ad company WPP, has denied violating rights.

AI's Stability spokesperson stated before the trial that this conflict involved "tech innovation and freedom of expression". According to them, artists who use AI-stability tools create works from human collective knowledge, which is in line with fair use principles and freedom of expression.

However, in court documents, AI's lawyer, Hugo Cudddigan, called the lawsuit "a real threat to the entire broadly generative AI and Stability business".

Getty's lawyer Lindsay Lane denied the claims in court. He stressed that this lawsuit is not a fight between the creative world and technology.

"It's not a matter of getting a win that means the end of AI," said Lane. Both can coexist synergically, because copyright and database rights are very important for AI's progress and success. The problem is when an AI company like Stability wants to use these works without paying."

Wider Impact

This Getty lawsuit is one of many similar cases in the UK, the US, and other countries concerning the use of copyrighted material to train AI models, especially after the popularity of ChatGPT and various other AI tools have surged in the last two years.

The creative industry is now facing a legal and ethical dilemma related to the AI model that can produce original works after being trained from existing materials. Several public figures, including Elton John, even called for greater protection against the rights of artists.

Legal experts say that the decision in this Getty case will have a major impact on copyright law and may affect future government policies related to copyright protection in the context of AI.

"Legally, we are in an area that has not been mapped. This case will determine the monopoly limit given by British copyright law in the AI era," said Rebecca Newman, a lawyer at law firm Addleshaw Goddard, who was not involved in the case.

Meanwhile, Cerys Wyn Davies of law firm Pinsent Masons added that the ruling from the British High Court "could have a major impact on British market practice and attractiveness as jurisdiction for AI development".