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Laion AI image scraping row escalates as photographer appeals to top German court

By Inbar Preiss ( December 22, 2025, 17:20 GMT | Insight) -- AI dataset provider Laion is set to see an appeal by a German photographer against a court ruling that found the company, when scraping an image of his for AI training data, could rely on research exceptions and invalidated his opt-out for lacking machine readability. Robert Kneschke confirmed the appeal to Germany’s highest court in an article published on his website.German photographer Robert Kneschke is appealing a court ruling that allowed artificial intelligence dataset provider Laion to rely on copyright exceptions when scraping an image of his for AI training data....

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