A California federal judge indicated he would allow a copyright lawsuit by ten visual artists against Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI to proceed past dismissal, finding plausible claims that the companies copied and stored copyrighted artwork on servers without permission to train image-generation systems. The ruling does not establish liability, but permits the case to advance to discovery, making training-data provenance and consent a contested legal question in federal court. For AI vendors and the firms that purchase their services, this signals material risk that unlicensed training data could generate balance-sheet liability and procurement friction, particularly in enterprise and government channels where compliance documentation is required.
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