Text and Data Mining (TDM)

  Image from pixabay The German Regional Court (Landgericht) of Hamburg handed down its judgment in the LAION case on 27 September 2024 (file no. 310 O 227/23, published in German here).   The key…

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Now that the summer is formally over it is time for the third trimester of the 2024 roundup of EU copyright law. In this edition, we update you on what has…

  Samuel Johnson by Joshua Reynolds from Wikipedia Large language models are built on scale. The bigger they are, the better they perform. The appetite for letters of these omnivorous readers is…

  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 Jakayla Toney on Unsplash The case recently brought against OpenAI by the New York Times is the latest in a series of legal actions involving AI in the United States, and mirrored in other…

Photo by Emily Wang on Unsplash The UK’s attempt to deal with generative AI, training data and copyright law has taken yet another turn. On 6 February 2024, in its response to the AI White Paper…

  Image by Anja from Pixabay In a statement made on 12 October 2023, the French collecting society Sacem, which represents most authors/composers and publishers of music in France, announced that it…

  Image via Pixabay The two US class actions against Meta   We have previously analysed US class actions against Open AI (here) and Google (here) for unauthorized use of copyright works in the…

  Image by Виктор Сапожников via Pixabay More than two years after the transposition deadline, and with another infringement proceeding under its belt, Bulgaria is one of the last Member States to…