Regional Court of Hamburg on AI Training Data: The LAION Photographer Dispute (§ 60d UrhG)
Validated facts
Judgment of 27 Sep 2024 (case no. 310 O 227/23). A photographer sued the AI association LAION over downloading his photo for a training dataset. The court dismissed the claim: Downloading for scientific research was covered by the limitation in § 60d UrhG.
In plain language
Research may reach into the net: When scientists crawl the internet for non-profit AI research, that is not illegal piracy.
Security relevance & practical tip
First German judgment on AI training; the question for commercial AIs (OpenAI, Midjourney) remains to be decided separately.
Primary source / reference
- LG Hamburg Urteil vom 27.09.2024 – 310 O 227/23