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Getty Images Sues Stability AI for Copyright Infringement

The IP Law Blog

Getty Images, a global visual content creator and leading source for visual content, has filed a lawsuit against startup technology company Stability AI for allegedly scraping more than 12 million photographs from Getty Images’ portfolio without consent or compensation. According to Getty, this is clear copyright infringement.

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Copilot or Co-Conspirator? Is GitHub’s New Feature a Copyright Infringer?

IPilogue

Claire Wortsman is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Is GitHub Copilot a Copyright Infringer? While Ziegler’s use of the word “mostly” may not reassure those fearing copyright infringement, his paper highlights two details that might. Photo by Christopher Gower ( Unsplash).

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Copyright Infringement in edited photographs

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

In USA, the person who presses the shutter button of a camera becomes the copyright holder of the photograph, in certain cases the person who sets up the camera has also been held as the copyright holder of the photograph. Thus, the question arises if such use attracts copyright infringement.

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[Book Review] Implied licences in copyright law

The IPKat

This is a review of Poorna Mysoor ’s Implied licences in copyright law (Oxford University Press, 2021). As the title suggests, this book consists of a detailed analysis and explanation of instances where it is possible to imply a copyright licence in response to or as a defence to an allegation of copyright infringement.

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Getty Images Sues Stability AI for Copyright Infringement

LexBlog IP

Getty Images, a global visual content creator and leading source for visual content, has filed a lawsuit against startup technology company Stability AI for allegedly scraping more than 12 million photographs from Getty Images’ portfolio without consent or compensation. According to Getty, this is clear copyright infringement.

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Using AI Artwork to Avoid Copyright Infringement

Copyright Lately

.” I was barely out of law school when a senior partner muttered those words as he handed me a scathing demand letter sent to one of the firm’s commercial director clients. This was the late ’90s, and the entertainment industry was still reeling from a well-publicized copyright infringement lawsuit involving the movie 12 Monkeys.

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Why Emerging Life Science Companies Must Address Copyright Compliance

Velocity of Content

Ignoring Copyright is Risky Business Research in the life sciences depends in part on the ability to acquire and share scientific information, particularly journal articles, in a timely manner. The copyright holder can enforce its rights through an infringement claim if uses are made without obtaining the appropriate permissions.