A US judge dismissed AI copyright infringement claims against Midjourney and DeviantArt by three artists, but allowed a claim against Stability AI to proceed
While a federal judge advanced an infringement claim against Stability AI, he dismissed the rest of the lawsuit.
The Hollywood Reporter Winston Cho
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@paninid@mastodon.world
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This will change how artists and creatives produce and distribute their works. — Technology to “poison pill” art might just be the start. — @Techmeme
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(Stability AI) Similarly fails — Judge demands facts re: Plaintiff's “compressed works” theory. Even then, Judge remains dubious: “Plaintiff's complaint is devoid of any allegations that [the artist's works] were used to create “fakes” of their work.” Dismissed / leave to amend […
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The judge appears dubious of the notion that Stable Diffusion contains “compressed copies” of all of the training images, and unless plaintiffs can plausibly allege as much, there won't be a viable theory of direct infringement against users of the tool. 4/
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Breaking: Judge Orrick dismissed most of the claims brought by the artists in Andersen v. Stability AI. This was an unsurprising result. Just because the technology is “new” doesn't mean we disregard current law. The claims were doomed regardless of AI.🧵https://acrobat.adobe.com/…
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@robertfreundlaw
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Just in: Stability AI loses motion to dismiss artists' copyright infringement class action lawsuit: [image]
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Aaron Moss
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Reading the tea leaves, it's likely that plaintiffs' direct infringement claims are going to be limited to the copying of images to train Stable Diffusion in the first instance. 3/
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Importantly, the court also appears to be quite skeptical of plaintiffs' theory that *all* output images are necessarily “derivative works” of all of the training images, and is likely to require allegations that 5/
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