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A 110-page complaint in the Central District of California alleges mass training-data infringement and seeks an injunction that, if granted, would force at least a temporary shutdown of the service (Fireship / Hollywood Reporter). As of June it sits in discovery. This is the precedent-setting fight over whether training on copyrighted IP without licensing survives in court. If you build on generative-image tooling, the platform risk here is real, not abstract. Have a fallback provider in mind.
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