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Navigating User Lawfulness in European Copyright Law: From Lawful Use to Lawful Access

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image created by AI The concept of lawfulness in relation to user status or user acts has been gradually established in EU digital copyright law as a condition for the enjoyment of certain copyright exceptions. In the Copydan judgment, the CJEU was more explicit regarding the conditions governing the lawful source.

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Copyright, Cultural Issues and Canada’s General Election, 2025

Hugh Stephens Blog

Image: Shutterstock (AI generated) As we complete the first few days in what is the shortest election campaign in Canadian history, the minimum 37 days required by law, where do the copyright and cultural industries stand with respect to electoral platforms and public consciousness?

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Taming the ‘LAION’: Lessons for Harmonising AI and Copyright Law

SpicyIP

on text data mining and its interpretation as an exception to allegations of copyright infringement, SpicyIP Fellowship applicant Tanishka Goswami highlights the key findings of the Court and explores the probable lessons for Indian policymakers in harmonizing copyright with AI and innovation. Her previous post can be accessed here.

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[Guest post] The UK’s AI and copyright consultation – will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective?

The IPKat

Heres what they write: The UKs AI and copyright consultation will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective? By way of brief overview of data protection law, under the UK GDPR personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

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AI Legal Research Tool Infringes Copyrights in Westlaw Case Law Headnotes and Editorial Content, District Court Finds

JD Supra Law

In a highly watched copyright case, a federal district court has ruled that an AI companys unauthorized copying and use of original case annotations and editorial content from a leading legal research platform to train and develop a competing legal research tool runs afoul of U.S. copyright law. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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Training AI Using ‘Pirated’ Content Can Be Fair Use, Law Professors Argue

TorrentFreak

In the race to build the most capable LLMs, several tech companies have sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. Many of those companies are now being sued for alleged copyright infringement. downloading for personal enjoyment). downloading for personal enjoyment).

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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 222: Robert Diab on Canadian Media’s Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI

Michael Geist

Canadas largest media companies came together recently to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. Robert Diab , a law professor at Thompson Rivers University, raised similar thoughts in his own piece on the lawsuit. The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below.

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