UPDATE: In the AI copyright legal war, the UK case is removed from the leading cases derby

In recent reports from ASLNN – The Apprehensive_Sky Legal News Network^SM, the UK case of Getty Images (US), Inc., et al. v. Stability AI, currently in trial, has been highlighted as potentially leading to a new ruling on copyright and the fair use defense for AI LLMs. However, the plaintiff in that case just dropped its copyright claim, so this case no longer holds the potential for a seminal ruling in the AI copyright area.

Plaintiff’s move does not necessarily reflect on the merits of copyright and fair use, because under UK law a different, separate aspect needed to be proved, that the copying took place within the UK, and it was becoming clear that the plaintiff was not going to be able to show this aspect

The revised version of ASLNN’s most recent update post can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1ljxptp

The revised version of ASLNN’s earlier update post can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1lgh5ne

A round-up post of all AI court cases can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1lclw2w/ai_court_cases_and_rulings