Commentary On The Getty v. Stability Judgment

Getty v. Stability

New technologies are increasingly colliding with established legal principles, forcing courts and legislators to reconcile principles drafted for a different era with today's technological reality.

Perhaps nowhere is this tension clearer than in the intersection between Artificial Intelligence ("AI") and Intellectual Property ("IP"), where traditional concepts of ownership and originality are being redefined. The legal frameworks governing AI and IP remain nascent, and precedent is still catching up.

The case of Getty Images v. Stability AI marks a foundational step in that process, a landmark case attempting to draw the line between training and copying, and to define how far traditional IP law can stretch to accommodate a technology that "learns" ... but does not necessarily "remember".