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accession: "0001213900-25-106226"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GETY"
cik: "0001898496"
company_name: "Getty Images Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T00:43:26.511623+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
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materiality_score: 0.8
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Getty Images wins UK court ruling in AI copyright/trademark case against Stability AI

## Summary
- UK court rules Stability AI's Stable Diffusion infringed Getty Images trademarks; rejects user-liability defense.
- Court finds Getty Images' copyright-protected works were used to train Stable Diffusion, a key finding for US case.
- Precedent set: AI models considered intangible articles subject to copyright infringement claims.
- Getty Images to use UK ruling findings in its separate US litigation against Stability AI.
- Getty urges governments to adopt stronger transparency rules for AI training data to protect creators.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-106226
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GETY
- cik: 0001898496
- company_name: Getty Images Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898496/000121390025106226/0001213900-25-106226-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898496/000121390025106226/ea0264020-8k_getty.htm

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