10:12 AM EST, 11/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Getty Images ( GETY ) largely lost its lawsuit alleging copyright and trademark infringement against artificial intelligence company Stability AI in UK, according to a court ruling published Tuesday.

Following the ruling, Getty called for stronger transparency rules to allow creators to protect their works. Getty had accused Stability AI of using Getty images to train its Stable Diffusion text-to-image model.

The court said Getty Images ( GETY ) partially succeeded in its trademark infringement claim related to Getty watermarks generated by users of Stable Diffusion, but the company's secondary copyright infringement claim was dismissed as Stable Diffusion, "which does not store or reproduce any copyright works, is not an infringing copy," according to the ruling.

Stability general counsel Christian Dowell said the ruling "ultimately resolves the copyright concerns that were the core issue," according to multiple reports.

"Today's ruling confirms that Stable Diffusion's inclusion of Getty Images' ( GETY ) trademarks in AI-generated outputs infringed those trademarks," Getty said in a statement.

"Crucially, the court rejected Stability AI's attempt to hold the user responsible for that infringement, confirming that responsibility for the presence of such trademarks lies with the model provider, who has control over the images used to train the model. This is a significant win for intellectual property owners," Getty said.

Shares of Getty were down more than 1% in recent trading Tuesday.

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