Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Now that 2024 is behind us, it’s time to report on the fourth trimester. Here is our final roundup of that AI-rich year. This post marks the fourth year of…

 Being an academic is a vocation. We are not in it for the money (hopefully), but mostly (hopefully) for the impact that we can make on our students’ and colleagues’ lives, as well as to contribute…

Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash The European AI Office is currently facilitating the drawing-up of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (the “Code”). The European Commission published the…

A few weeks ago, the Spanish Ministry of Culture released a legislative proposal aimed at introducing extended collective licensing (ECL) for the development of general-purpose AI models. The first…

  Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash As the discussion on AI regulation is intensifying around the globe, the Australian Government’s Department for Industry, Science and Resources has recently…

  Generated with OpenAI's DALL-E 3 model based on a prompt corresponding to the wording of Recital 106 AI Act Introduction The interaction between the AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) and the exceptions…

  Image by M. H. from Pixabay In the first part of this post on the Kneschke vs. LAION decision by the German Hamburg Regional Court (“Court”), we explored the Court's key findings regarding the…

  Image by M. H. from Pixabay On September 27, 2024, the German Hamburg Regional Court (“Court”) issued the first ruling on reproductions of copyrighted content from the Internet made during the…

  Image by M. Richter from Pixabay Copyright is not averse to new technologies. Its history is intrinsically linked to technological development. At each stage, revisions, adjustments, and…