本案是英国首起涉及AI（Artificial Intelligence，人工智能）的重大知识产权纠纷。涉案AI使用了未经许可授权的创意作品进行训练。本案值得持续关注。
This is the first major IP dispute in the UK concerning AI that has been trained on unlicensed creative works, and it will be an interesting one to watch.
Getty Images是美国一家媒体公司和知名的图片库提供商。目前Getty Images已经在伦敦高等法院对Stability AI公司的诉讼采取了初步行动。Stability AI公司是名为Stable Diffusion的AI图像生成模型的创建者。在关于本诉讼的声明中，Getty Images主张Stability AI侵犯了其享有的知识产权，包括该公司原创或代表的内容的版权。
Getty Images, the American media company and renowned supplier of stock images, has taken the first steps in legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice in London against Stability AI, the company behind the AI image generator Stable Diffusion. In their announcement about this action, Getty Images claims that Stability AI infringed their intellectual property rights, including copyright in content owned or represented by Getty Images.
“Getty Images认定Stability AI非法复制和处理了数以百万计的Getty Images拥有或代表的受版权保护的图像以及相关元数据，这些行为并未获得任何授权许可，在给Stability AI的商业利益带来收益的同时，侵害了内容创作者的权益。”Getty Images主张简要概述如下：
"It is Getty Images’ position that Stability AI unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images absent a license to benefit Stability AI’s commercial interests and to the detriment of the content creators". To summarise briefly, Getty Images allege that:
Stability AI在训练Stable Diffusion模型的过程中处理了海量的图像和相关的元数据
Stability AI processed vast quantities of images and their metadeta during their training of Stable Diffusion
这些图像和元数据包含Getty Images拥有版权的图像，而Stability AI对此并未获得许可授权
These included images in which Getty Images owns the copyright, and to which Stability AI did not have a licence
Stability AI将图像用于AI训练的行为，构成版权侵权
Such use, for the AI training, constitutes copyright infringement
由于此类AI图像生成工具未来将与艺术家和作品创作者构成竞争关系，创意行业人士要求拥有AI生成工具的企业就使用原创作品供AI学习和创建活动的行为进行付费似乎是情有可缘的。
As these AI image generators will be competing against artists and creators for work going forwards, it seems understandable that those in creative industry want the businesses behind AI generators to pay for use of the original creative works that their AI has learnt from and built upon.
在接受科技杂志“The Verge”采访时，Getty Images的首席执行官Craig Peters将目前AI训练所处的环境与早期的数字音乐进行了关联分析。在历史上曾经出现非法复制的数字音乐在创建后通过像Napster这样的点对点文件分享传播的情况，之后才在音像公司与许可人之间达成规范传播的协议。Craig Peters认为“类似地，这些生成式人工智能模型也需要处理他人的知识产权问题…我们采取这一行动就是为了此问题在法律上得到阐明”。
In an interview with the tech publication The Verge, Getty Images CEO Craig Peters likened the current landscape of AI training to the dawn of digital music. Historically, illegal copies of digital tracks were made and shared via peer-to-peer file sharing applications like Napster, until stronger agreements were made between music labels and license holders to regulate distribution. Craig Peters believes that "similarly these generative models need to address the intellectual property rights of others...we’re taking this action to get clarity".
Stability AI似乎目前尚未就这些声诉作出公开评论。但Stability AI的首席执行官Emad Mostaque最近在推特中讨论训练数据套件时表示“我认为他们都是通过合乎规范、道德和法律标准的方式获得并使用的”。
Stability AI do not yet appear to have commented publicly on these allegations, however in a recent tweet Emad Mostaque, the CEO of Stability AI, discussed the training data sets stating "I believe they are ethically , morally and legally sourced and used".
公众将饶有兴致地期待本纠纷如何演进，因为本案可能将对创意以及AI产业均产生深远影响。
It will be fascinating to see how this dispute unfolds, as it may have significant implications for the creative and AI industries.
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