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Adobe Sued by Own Shareholders Over AI Training on AI-Generated Images

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(By You Yunting) Recently, Adobe, a software company that has long been vocal in enforcing its copyrights, together with its management, was sued by its own shareholders in the Northern District of California for alleged securities fraud based on false statements, due to using pirated materials to train its AI. The core allegations in the complaint include Adobe’s use of a large number of pirated books and AI-generated images sourced from its competitor Midjourney to train its AI models. I have often discussed the legal issues of training AI on pirated content, but today I would like to talk about what legal risks arise from using AI-generated images to train AI models.

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What’s Left for Photographers When the Court Decided That the AI-generated Image Did Not Constitute Infringement Upon the Photographic Work it Mimicked?

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(By You Yunting) On April 2nd, 2026, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court in Germany issued a final judgment regarding a dispute over an AI-generated image that mimicked a photographic work, holding that the defendant’s conduct did not constitute copyright infringement. Under China’s Copyright Law, such conduct would also fall outside the scope of copyright infringement. This judgment means that a significant portion of photographers’ business may be lawfully replaced by AI. The underlying cause is that the traditional idea-expression dichotomy in copyright law can no longer adapt to the creation logic of generative AI.

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