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Artists Score Major Win in Copyright Case Against AI Art Generators

The court declined to dismiss copyright infringement claims against the AI companies. The order could implicate other firms that used Stable Diffusion, the AI model at issue in the case.

Karla Ortiz, who brought the lawsuit, has worked on projects like Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War and Thor: Ragnarok and is credited with coming up with the main character design for Doctor Strange. The lawsuit, filed last year, revolves around the LAION dataset, which was built using five billion images that were allegedly scraped from the internet and utilized by Stability and Runway to create Stable Diffusion. When it dismissed infringement claims last year, the court found that the theory of the case was “unclear” as to whether there are copies of training images stored in Stable Diffusion that are then utilized by DeviantArt and Midjourney.

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