Stock Photos vs Unwatermark.ai: Is It Possible to Get Crisp, Clean Previews for Mockups? - Mid-day

A new artificial intelligence tool is quietly allowing designers and marketers to strip watermarks from stock photos, potentially upending licensing agreements that protect photographers and image companies worth billions in annual revenue. The technology raises urgent questions about whether current copyright protections can survive an era when watermarks—long considered an industry standard—can be removed with a few clicks. As startups race to commercialize watermark-removal AI, stock photo giants face a reckoning over whether their business models are defensible against tools designed to circumvent them.

Mid-day·Mar 18