UK High Court rejects Getty's secondary copyright claim against Stability AI

In [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch), Mrs Justice Joanna Smith held that Stable Diffusion's model weights do not store Getty's photographs and so are not an 'infringing copy' that could be imported or dealt with in the UK. Getty had dropped its primary claim over training, which took place outside the UK; the court found only limited trade mark infringement in older model versions that reproduced Getty watermarks.