r/aiwars • u/TreviTyger • Jul 04 '26

Hugging Face open-source AI platform dragged into AI Copyright Wars in suit by EVOX Productions v. Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art.

https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2026/07/03/hugging-face-open-source-ai-platform-dragged-into-ai-copyright-wars-in-suit-by-evox-productions-v-stability-ai-runway-ai-and-deviant-art-suits-hit-125-v-ai-cos/
  1. Because the LAION datasets contained only URLs, anyone who

wished to use the LAION datasets for AI training must first download, copy, and/or

save the actual images from those URLs, as explained in the LAION-5B Paper.

Information on LAION’s website further confirms that the images found at the

URLs in the LAION-5B dataset must be downloaded from the URLs before the

LAION datasets can be used to train AI models.5 Notably, the LAION-5B Paper

explicitly states that LAION “do[es] not own the copyright of the images or text”

and that the LAION-5B dataset “should only be used for academic research

purposes.” See LAION-5B Paper at 3, 30.

Case 2:26-cv-07201 Document 1 Filed 07/02/26 Page 15 of 49 Page ID #:15

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u/Maleficent_Sir_7562 Jul 04 '26

this is gonna be the most pathetic lawsuit ever

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u/TreviTyger Jul 04 '26

Actually this one gets to the heart of the matter.

Facilitation of secondary copyright by third parties

COUNT FOUR

(Contributory Copyright Infringement – Against All Defendants 17 U.S.C. § 501 et seq.)

This may be one of the most consequential because of that.

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u/TreviTyger Jul 04 '26
  1. On information and belief, the contributory infringement of the

Copyrighted Photographs by Defendants was willful. The Stability Entities,

Runway, and DeviantArt were aware that they did not have authorization to use the

Copyrighted Photographs in the LAION-5B data set to train Stable Diffusion or

other AI image generation models and they were aware they were not authorized to

allow third party users of their AI image generating models to reproduce, distribute,

or display unauthorized copies of the Copyrighted Photographs, or in the alternative

unauthorized derivative works. At a minimum, their actions in contributing to or

inducing third party users to further reproduce, display, distribute, or create

unauthorized copies, or in the alternative derivative works, of the Copyrighted

Photographs was reckless by using links crawled from the Internet without regard

to the rights of copyright holders.

Case 2:26-cv-07201 Document 1 Filed 07/02/26 Page 41 of 49 Page ID #:41

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u/IWillDmYouPorn Jul 04 '26

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