When the Budapest Környéki Törvényszék (the Budapest District Court) referred Like Company v Google Ireland (C-250/25) in April 2025, the case was hailed as the first reference to the CJEU on…
On 3 November 2026, Advocate General (AG) Szpunar delivered his much-awaited Opinion in Like Company (C-250/25), the first generative AI and copyright case to reach the Court of Justice of the…
Impact of first appellate court decision on AI and copyright fair use is limited because generative AI was not involved, and defendant’s use of headnotes for competing research product was not…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the copyright landscape, but the debate is no longer limited to legislation and emerging case law. Generative AI (GenAI) is exposing an infrastructure gap in…
For several years, creators asking AI developers to obtain authorization before using protected works for training have faced a familiar objection: permission raises the cost of training and can slow…
The debate over AI and copyright policy, and how to ensure remuneration for right holders, is gaining momentum around the world. There have been calls to review EU copyright law, India has proposed…
Generative tools like DALL·E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion can now produce an image "in the style of" almost any artist in seconds. That capability sits uneasily with EU copyright law, which has…
Who “owns” content generated with a person’s personal AI twin? In this post, we briefly explain the technology underlying personal AI twins and offer three possible answers to this question. We…
Any suggestion that copyright might be linked in any way to a registry is enough to raise concerns amongst legal scholars and rightsholders. Yet, notwithstanding the questionable choice of term - one…