U.S. District Court, D. Delaware · Docket 1:23-cv-00135-JLH
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Latest development · June 1, 2026
U.S. case proceeds after the UK High Court ruled in late 2025 on the parallel Getty v. Stability UK action, which resolved largely in Stability's favor on the training claims while Getty prevailed narrowly on trademark issues.
Getty alleges Stability copied more than 12 million Getty photographs, with captions and metadata, to train Stable Diffusion, and that outputs reproduced distorted Getty watermarks. Claims span copyright, trademark, and CMI removal.
The defining visual-dataset case: watermark evidence makes copying unusually visible, and the trademark angle covers ground pure copyright cases cannot.
Stock photographs with watermarks and metadata
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