Text and Data Mining (TDM)

  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…

  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…