I firms have notched another copyright win.

Stability AI largely won in its intellectual property legal battle against Getty Images, Britain's High Court ruled on Tuesday. Though a judge ruled that Getty narrowly prevailed in its argument that Stability infringed its trademark, it lost the secondary claim that the AI firm infringed its copyright.

Getty had initially claimed that the AI firm’s Stable Diffusion image generation tool was a “brazen infringement” of its library. Though Getty said the ruling was a “significant win” for IP owners, Stability’s General Counsel Christian Dowell told ABC News that the decision resolves the “core issue” of copyright.

The ruling comes amid growing tensions between AI firms and copyright holders. The launch of OpenAI’s Sora in late September has already incensed many Hollywood hotshots, with major agencies opting to keep their clients off the platform and SAG-AFTRA decrying the growing deepfake problem. 

But the tides may be turning in the favor of model developers, and Stability’s win isn’t the only sign. Last week, Universal Music Group, one of the industry’s most prominent record labels, settled its copyright lawsuit against AI music platform Udio, opting instead to partner with the startup. UMG also announced a partnership with Stability to develop “responsibly trained” AI music creation tools.

These partnerships and legal settlements could signal that if creative firms can’t beat the growing movement towards AI in the artistic process, they may simply have to join it.