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We tend to think that bad policy begins in parliament buildings, in closed-door meetings, or in regulatory working groups. But often, it starts elsewhere — on the street, in a café queue, or on…

Part 1 of this post examined how the OLG Hamburg’s ruling in Kneschke v. LAION gives concrete meaning to the requirement that TDM opt-outs be machine-readable and machine-actionable, while also…

Last week, the OLG Hamburg provided the first genuinely substantive judicial engagement with what constitutes a machine-readable rights reservation under Article 4(3) of the DSM Directive in an AI…

 The U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to shake up American copyright law by articulating a different—and likely a stricter—legal standard for what constitutes contributory copyright infringement in…

 Part 1 of this post outlined the decision in GEMA v OpenAI and placed it in the action workflow of large language models (LLMs) as well as explaining why treating training as “reproduction”, in the…

 My impulse to write this piece came from a question at a recent Conference, where I was speaking about AI training, fair use and EU text-and-data mining (TDM). During the Q&A, someone asked about…