Getty Images, the global holder of rights in a substantial database of content, including photographs and videos, claimed that Stability AI, the developer of an AI text-to-image art generator, infringed its copyright, database rights and trade marks by copying millions of Getty’s images and associated text and metadata and using those images and associated IP as part of the dataset used to train the “Stable Diffusion” AI model. Getty’s claim also included allegations that the outputs reproduced Getty content. The High Court held that Stability AI is not liable for copyright infringement arising from the download of copies of Stable Diffusion in the UK from online locations outside the UK (secondary infringement). Getty has since been granted permission to appeal.