Part 1 of this post examined how the OLG Hamburg’s ruling in Kneschke v. LAION gives concrete meaning to the requirement that TDM opt-outs be machine-readable and machine-actionable, while also…
Last week, the OLG Hamburg provided the first genuinely substantive judicial engagement with what constitutes a machine-readable rights reservation under Article 4(3) of the DSM Directive in an AI…
The U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to shake up American copyright law by articulating a different—and likely a stricter—legal standard for what constitutes contributory copyright infringement…
Part 1 of this post outlined the decision in GEMA v OpenAI and placed it in the action workflow of large language models (LLMs) as well as explaining why treating training as “reproduction”, in…
My impulse to write this piece came from a question at a recent Conference, where I was speaking about AI training, fair use and EU text-and-data mining (TDM). During the Q&A, someone asked…
As 2025 draws to a close, we can start looking back on a particularly turbulent year for music streaming. One that might come to be understood as a tilting point for streaming and the music sector at…
Around the world, governments are developing legal frameworks to address artificial intelligence. The European Union has adopted a comprehensive AI Act regulating high-risk systems, while South Korea…
Italy has officially entered the age of artificial intelligence regulation. After more than a year of adjustments, the long-awaited Italian law on AI has finally been approved - marking a turning…
In May 2025, the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia unanimously (with 76 votes in favour and none against) adopted an amendment to the Scientific Research and Innovation Activity Act (Slo…
In August, I spoke at the Panama International Book Fair, in an event co-hosted by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Panama Copyright Office, the Ministry of Culture, and the…
