[mmwako]

Just read the first article. Getty Images was sued by a photographer for using 18.000 her public domain images for profit by Getty. The ruling DISMISSED the allegation, which is crazy. It's comical that now it's exactly the same allegation, but with the sides inverted, now it's Getty trying to sue an AI company for using their public domain images. I think we can all guess what's going to happen xD

[nucleardog]

> Getty Images was sued by a photographer for using 18.000 her public domain images for profit by Getty.

You can use public domain images for profit. It's not surprising this was thrown out.

> It's comical that now it's exactly the same allegation, but with the sides inverted, now it's Getty trying to sue an AI company for using their public domain images.

Where does it say they're suing over the public domain images in their collection? Their collection is not entirely public domain images. Their suit claims for the copyright works by staff photographers, third parties that have assigned copyright, and images licensed to them by contributing photographers. In addition, they're claiming for the titles and captions which they created and are themselves copyrighted.

It's not the "exact same allegation", and there's really no relation between the facts of the cases here.

[rvz]

> I think we can all guess what's going to happen xD

The outcome will be, Stable Diffusion settling and licensing the images from Getty Images. If OpenAI was able to do it with Shutter-stock, so can Stable Diffusion.

[300bps]

I don't think that outcome is assured. In a lot of ways, Stable Diffusion's business model creates an existential threat to Getty Images. I would expect alternative outcomes to be:

1. The requested licensing fee approaches infinity

2. Getty Images simply refuses to license images to anyone who will use AI to create derivative works

[LegitShady]

I don't think thats an acceptable outcome to getty, whose entire business model will be confounded by a tech that used its images against license to generate alternatives to getty's business.