The UK’s first “Copyright vs. AI” decision (Getty Images (US) Inc & ors vs. Stability AI Limited [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch)) marks a clear win for the artificial intelligence industry. The English High Court raised the rhetorical question on the industry’s lips, “whether this judgment will, in reality, have anything to say on the balance to be struck between the two warring factions…”. The Judge’s answer is clear: the case does not answer whether training and development of AI models in the UK is an indefensible infringement of copyright. As to deployment of that trained model, the High Court concluded that an AI model itself cannot constitute an infringing copy. On Stability AI’s reproduction of the Getty trademarks, the High Court found that there was a historic and limited infringement.
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