A mid-year evaluate of AI and copyright posts – Cyber Tech

The position of copyright guidelines within the regulation of synthetic intelligence (AI) continues to dominate authorized discussions in 2025. With new case legislation, legislative initiatives, and regulatory developments unfolding throughout jurisdictions, the dialogue on how copyright interacts with AI fashions and programs – notably round coaching knowledge, authorship, and lawful use – has solely grown extra advanced.

The latest preliminary reference to the Court docket of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Case C-250/25, Like Firm v Google Eire Restricted from the Budapest Környéki Törvényszék (Hungary) illustrates this rising momentum (see early commentary by Keller, Guadamuz and Rosati). This reference comes on the heels of nationwide first occasion judgments on totally different elements of textual content and knowledge mining (TDM) and/or AI coaching within the Germany, The Netherlands, Hungary, in addition to pending litigation in in France – by authors and publishers towards Meta – and in Germany by gathering society GEMA towards Suno AI and Open AI. Exterior the EU, we will additionally point out the Getty Photographs v Stability AI case within the UK, a veritable tsunami of litigation within the US, as nicely a notable case  towards OpenAI in India.

As we await steerage from the CJEU in C-250/25, it’s value reflecting on the wealthy and numerous commentary printed on the Kluwer Copyright Weblog to date this yr.

Beneath is a chronological round-up (in reverse order) of our posts from 2025 relating AI, TDM, and associated copyright points:

June

Copyright, Compliance, and Confidentiality: Discovering Frequent Floor in Generative AI —Enrico Bonadio, Eduardo Alonso and Vansh Tayal (Symbiosis Legislation Faculty, Pune, India)
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Report on LSE occasion – Synthetic Intelligence, Mental Property, and the Artistic Industries — Marianna Foerg
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Might

The EU’s false sense of isolationism in AI and copyright — Bertin Martens (Bruegel)
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Do AI fashions dream of dolphins in lake Balaton? — Paul Keller
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From Hollywood to Germany: A Transatlantic Comparability of Collective Agreements on AI in Movie and TV Manufacturing — Christiane Stuetzle & Susan Bischoff
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Does Human Studying Equal Machine Studying? Excessive Court docket of Delhi to Rule on Lawfulness of TDM for Machine Studying— Pragya Jha & Bernd Justin Jütte
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Third European Court docket Choice on the Normal Objective TDM Exception Is Out — Peter Mezei
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April

Originality within the Age of AI: The best way to Get Copyright Safety Now? — Jakub Wyczik
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The TDM Decide-Out within the EU – 5 Issues, One Resolution — Martin Senftleben
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March

Thaler v. Perlmutter: Human Authors on the Heart of Copyright? — Matt Blaszczyk
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Second and Third Drafts of the Normal-Objective AI Code of Observe Launched — Marianna Foerg
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Remuneration for Use of Works in Textual content and Knowledge Mining — Damian Flisak
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Navigating Person Lawfulness in European Copyright Legislation: From Lawful Use to Lawful Entry — Tatiana Synodinou
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Reconceptualizing the Replica Proper within the Age of AI — Rita Matulionyte
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Open Supply Synthetic Intelligence Definition 1.0 – A ‘Take It or Go away It’ Strategy for Open Supply AI Methods — Yaniv Benhamou & Michel Reymond
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February

European Copyright Society Opinion on Copyright and Generative AI — Dusollier, Kretschmer, Margoni, Mezei, Quintais, Rognstad
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The AI Act Provisions Regarding Copyright – Risk of Personal Enforcement? Germany as an Instance— Jan Bernd Nordemann & Arman Rasouli
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January

DPG Media et al. vs. HowardsHome – A Nationwide Ruling on DSM’s Press Publishers’ Rights and TDM Exceptions — Etienne Valk & Iris Toepoel

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The Doubtful Utilitarian Argument for Granting Copyright in AI-Generated Works — Patrick Goold
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Because the yr progresses, we count on extra key developments on this house, together with judicial clarification, legislative motion, and coverage initiatives from international establishments. The Kluwer Copyright Weblog will proceed to observe and contribute to the dialog.

Keep tuned for additional updates!