Paul Keller

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…

There is increasing recognition that, as part of its efforts to remain competitive in the race toward ever more powerful AI capabilities, Europe should invest in Public AI. That is, AI systems that…

  ChatGPT based on the input of millions of unknown creators of visual artworks on the public internet There is a bit of excitement in copyright circles about the first case referred to the CJEU that…

  Landgericht Hamburg Criminal Justice Building by Andrew Milligan sumo from flickr CC BY 2.0 Last week, the District Court of Hamburg, Germany, held a hearing in the first European case to examine…

Photo by Sara Kurfeß on Unsplash Today marks the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. It is hard to remember how divisive and…

  Basia Łabaj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This must have been the key insight at the Polish Culture and National Heritage Ministry when the new…

 On Friday evening, after 38 hours of negotiations, representatives of the European Parliament, EU member states and the European Commission reached a provisional agreement on the proposed AI Act…

 Machine readable opt-outs from TDM As we head into the last month of the current EU legislative term, there are increasing signs that EU lawmakers are unable to agree on the AI Act, which was…