The Hamburg Regional Court just issued an important decision finding that the nonprofit’s collection of photographs of Robert Kneschke from the Internet (in the process of scraping online content) for inclusion in LAION’s dataset (used by others to train AI models) fell within the exception in German law for noncommercial text and data mining (TDM), as recognized under the Digital Single Market Directive Article 3.
The Hamburg Court’s official decision in Kneschke v. LAION in German is below:
We couldn’t find an English translation so we asked ChatGPT to translate the decision into English. We haven’t verified the accuracy of this unofficial translation, however; so please beware this is unofficial.
UPDATE: We were alerted to a few pages missing from the translation. On Sept. 30, 2024, we uploaded a corrected version below: