A German court has ruled against a photographer who sued the AI image dataset company LAION in a case that could have big implications.
in one of LAION’s large image repositories used by major tech companies to train AI image generators with. Kneschke requested his photos be removed from the dataset but LAION denied holding copies of his photos saying it “only maintains a database containing links to image files that are publicly available on the internet”.that LAION benefited from the exception of copyright infringement under Section 60 of Germany copyright law.
“The fact that the dataset in dispute may also be used by commercially active companies for training or further developing their AI systems is, however, irrelevant for the classification of the defendant’s activities,” the court says,“The mere fact that individual members of the defendant also pursue paid activities for such companies in addition to their activities for the association is not sufficient to attribute the activities of these companies to the defendant as their own.
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