[HN Gopher] Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit again...
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       Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney,
       Stability AI
        
       Author : starshadowx2
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-10-30 22:35 UTC (25 minutes ago)
        
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       | artninja1988 wrote:
       | Good. Most claims got dismissed (although with leave to amend)
       | with only the infringement on the input side really remaining.
       | This lawyer is a clown
        
       | brucethemoose2 wrote:
       | Why is Midjourney completely off the hook while Stability AI is
       | not?
       | 
       | I'm trying to pull up the original court document, but the PDF
       | isnt loading.
        
       | williamcotton wrote:
       | _Orrick also dismissed McKernan and Ortiz 's copyright
       | infringement claims entirely._
       | 
       | Well, duh. The judge is helping out the plaintiffs in this case.
       | A jury would have been easily convinced by the defense that no
       | images produced by Stability's systems are visually derivative.
       | 
       | The key is indeed what follows:
       | 
       |  _Orrick also dismissed McKernan and Ortiz 's copyright
       | infringement claims entirely. The judge allowed Andersen to
       | continue pursuing her key claim that Stability's alleged use of
       | her work to train Stable Diffusion infringed her copyrights._
       | 
       | So unless sometime before the trial there is some kind of summary
       | judgement I would wager that this becomes the focus of both
       | sides.
       | 
       | But that's it. As predicted, the outputs of Stable Diffusion are
       | distinct from the model and are not infringing on copyright.
        
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