Text and Data Mining (TDM)

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Slightly overdue, but here comes the first roundup of 2025. The EU courts have issued just one judgment in this trimester, but to make up for it, there have been…

Image by Mohamed Hassan via PxHere The debate on the use of copyrighted material to train generative AI models is evolving, shifting its focus from whether compensation is due to creators, to…

 The European Copyright Society (ECS) has published its Opinion on copyright and generative AI.  The Executive Summary is reproduced below and the full Opinion is available here and here.   Executive…

 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…

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…

  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…