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AI non-profit wins German court ruling in decisive copyright case on image scraping

By Sara Brandstätter ( October 2, 2024, 14:17 GMT | Insight) -- A photographer's image, which has been downloaded for creating a database to be used for training artificial intelligence image generators, can be used under an exception in a German law implementing the EU's Copyright Directive. Last week's ruling by the Hamburg Regional Court could lead to creators, such as the photographer Robert Kneschke, having less control over the use of their work for AI training. A photographer's complaint against the use of one of his copyrighted — yet publicly available — images for AI training purposes has been dismissed by the Hamburg Regional Court (see here). ...

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