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Getty Images Faces Off Against Stability in Court as First Major AI Copyright Trial Begins

The trial involving Getty Images and Stability AI began in London this week, and the AI company has claimed in its opening statement that the copyright case represents an "overt threat" to the entire industry. Getty rejects that motion arguing in court yesterday that it "is not a battle between creatives and technology, where a win for Getty Images means the end of AI.”

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Democrats and Republicans Unwilling to Hand Copyright Office to Big Tech

It's chaos at the Library of Congress and the United States Copyright Office. Less than a week after firing the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, and the Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, the Trump administration is locked in a power struggle to install AI-friendly leaders to oversee all copyrighted materials in the U.S.