Germany: Hamburg District Court issued ruling in Kneschke v LAION permitting text and data mining of publicly available images to build free databases for training artificial intelligence
Description
Hamburg District Court issued ruling in Kneschke v LAION permitting text and data mining of publicly available images to build free databases for training artificial intelligence
On 27 September 2024, the Hamburg District Court of Germany ruled that LAION, a non-profit organisation, did not infringe copyright law by building databases for the purpose of training artificial intelligence using images obtained through text and …
Scope
Policy Area
Intellectual property
Policy Instrument
Copyright protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
ML and AI development
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
judiciary
Government Body
court