Getty Images v. Stability AI, High Court of England and Wales judgment (4 November 2025): model weights are not an infringing copy (Getty Images (US) Inc & Ors v Stability AI Ltd [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch))
The UK court did not decide whether training infringes, because Getty dropped that claim for want of evidence that training happened in the UK. It held only that a trained model imported into the UK is not an infringing copy. It is not US fair use law.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“While it is true that the model weights are altered during training by exposure to Copyright Works, by the end of that process the Model itself does not store any of those Copyright Works; the model weights are not themselves an infringing copy and they do not store an infringing copy.”
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