The Harlow Report-GIS
2023 Edition
ISSN 0742-468X
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first published week of: 01/23/2023
Artists File Class-Action Lawsuit Against AI Image Generator Companies
by BENJ EDWARDS
Suit seeks damages from Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt.
Some artists have begun waging a legal fight against the alleged theft of billions of copyrighted images used to train AI art generators to reproduce unique styles without compensating artists or asking for consent.
A group of artists represented by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm has filed a US federal class-action lawsuit in San Francisco against AI-art companies Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt for alleged violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, violations of the right of publicity, and unlawful competition.
The artists taking action—Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz—"seek to end this blatant and enormous infringement of their rights before their professions are eliminated by a computer program powered entirely by their hard work," according to the official text of the complaint filed to the court.
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