The persistence of memorization – TechnoLlama
We’ve now had two recent decisions in the UK and Germany very close together that have dealt with AI and copyright. I won’t go in detail again on the rulings, you can read the previous …| TechnoLlama
Following the recent decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and last year’s Kneschke v LAION, we now have two German courts grappling with the applicability of the text and data mining exceptions to AI training. Despite arriving at different outcomes, LAION won, OpenAI lost, both decisions share something important: they confirm […]| Technollama
We’ve now had two recent decisions in the UK and Germany very close together that have dealt with AI and copyright. I won’t go in detail again on the rulings, you can read the previous …| TechnoLlama
You may have come across Deep Dream, a visualization tool by Google that uses artificial intelligence to create unique, bizarre, and sometimes unsettling images. Deep Dream is an open source progra…| TechnoLlama
With the release of Grok 2, Twitter’s latest model, there has been a growing number of images depicting fictional characters as well as celebrities and public personalities on the social medi…| TechnoLlama
While most of the attention regarding artificial intelligence and copyright has been centred in the United States, it’s useful to remember that one of the main pieces of litigation is taking …| TechnoLlama
Copyright AI nerds have been eagerly awaiting a decision in the German case of Kneschke v LAION (previous blog post about the case here), and yesterday we got a ruling (text of the decision in Germ…| TechnoLlama
The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like …| TechnoLlama
The much-awaited decision in the lawsuit between stock photography giant Getty Images and AI developer Stability AI has now been released, see: Getty Images v Stability AI [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) (HTML version here). I’ve discussed this case before, but these are the facts as presented by Smith J in […]| Technollama
It would be fair to say that we’re going through a period of realisation that social media may not have been such a good thing after all. The list of serious complaints continues to grow. Soc…| TechnoLlama
Recently, I had a marathon of old “sword and sorcery” movies; over a few days I watched films such as ‘Conan the Barbarian’, ‘The Neverending Story’, ‘Exca…| TechnoLlama
Something remarkable is happening online, and I don’t quite know how to explain it, but I’ll try. OpenAI has released Sora 2, the latest version of its video-generating tool, and it has landed with…| TechnoLlama
We are probably squarely in the middle of the AI copyright regulatory cycle, judging by previous technological inflexion points. The first half of this cycle has been dominated rightly by copyright…| TechnoLlama
There’s been quite a lot of talk recently about the UK’s Online Safety Act, mostly negative. This is a perfect storm of Internet regulation, people either decry it for being too soft, o…| TechnoLlama
I’ve been busy in recent weeks writing my last project for the summer, a book chapter on AI and copyright for the next edition of Law, Policy and the Internet, edited by Lilian Edwards. This …| TechnoLlama
(This is the text of a recent short piece I published on SSRN, it’s short enough to be turned into a blog post, but it’s written in a more formal style than what habitual users are accu…| TechnoLlama
It’s been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I’ve been following all of the developments closely, I haven’t had the time to react to everything in the blog. …| TechnoLlama
In a spectacular development in the AI wars, Disney and several studios have sued the AI image-generating company Midjourney for copyright infringement (complaint here). To say that this has genera…| TechnoLlama
Most people who have been paying attention to the copyright and AI debate in Europe have been expecting that at some point the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) would be tasked with int…| TechnoLlama
