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Artists file class action against Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt

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Source: Joseph Saveri Law Firm (counsel for the plaintiffs)

Illustrators Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan and Karla Ortiz sued Stability AI, DeviantArt and Midjourney in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 13 January 2023. The proposed class action claims copyright infringement, DMCA violations, right of publicity violations, unfair competition and unjust enrichment over the training and output of image generators such as Stable Diffusion.

Why it matters

Image-generator developers faced a class claim from visual artists over training on scraped images, putting the legality of that training data before a US federal court.

When
13 Jan 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0042
Who
Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt; Sarah Andersen, Karla Ortiz, Kelly McKernan
Authority
US District Court, N.D. California
Target
Stability AI; DeviantArt; Midjourney
Action
class action
Status
open · Enforcement ledger

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Joseph Saveri Law Firm. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Joseph Saveri Law Firm

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: Led toGetty Images starts High Court proceedings against Stability AI in London

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WTA-N-2023-0042: “Artists file class action against Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt.” wheresthe.ai, 13 Jan 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-andersen-v-stability-ai-filed-2023-01/ (source: Joseph Saveri Law Firm (counsel for the plaintiffs)).

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