This article reports on a ruling (205 page PDF) in a case brought by Getty Images against Stability AI. Long story short: Getty lost. "An AI model such as Stable Diffusion which does not store or reproduce any copyright works (and has never done so) is not an 'infringing copy'." This short overview on LinkedIn by Barry Scannell is a useful read. "Justice Smith was clear that while an infringing copy can be an article under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, a trained AI model is not one. It is not a library of images or text. It is a network of statistical weights and parameters that describe relationships, not the data itself."
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