I’ve been following the CJEU case C-250/25 Like Company v Google hearing with interest (my initial thoughts on the case here). I won’t attempt to cover the entirety of the proceedings, I’ve already accumulated plenty of notes for that, but Read more
If you have been online recently you may have seen a variation of a story that reads something like this: “The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren’t copyrightable.” I won’t name and shame all of the places Read more
A few months ago we were pondering a few things about the future of media here at Llama Towers. I speculated about a world where you could generate your own Star Wars trilogy based on the Timothy Zahn’s novels, fix Read more
It’s been a while since we had a proper digital property and virtual gold story here at Llama Towers, I have to admit that it’s been mostly AI for the last few years. But a recent decision in the Court Read more
Text from my editorial in IIC. In courtrooms across the globe, a quiet crisis is brewing. As the number of artificial intelligence copyright litigations increases, judges are being asked to decide the fate of technologies that often operate in dimensions Read more
Following the recent decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and last year’s Kneschke v LAION, we now have two German courts grappling with the applicability of the text and data mining exceptions to AI training. Despite arriving at different outcomes, LAION Read more
We’ve now had two recent decisions in the UK and Germany very close together that have dealt with AI and copyright. I won’t go in detail again on the rulings, you can read the previous posts discussing them here and Read more
The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like a clear defeat Read more
The much-awaited decision in the lawsuit between stock photography giant Getty Images and AI developer Stability AI has now been released, see: Getty Images v Stability AI [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) (HTML version here). I’ve discussed this case before, but Read more
It would be fair to say that we’re going through a period of realisation that social media may not have been such a good thing after all. The list of serious complaints continues to grow. Social media is making our Read more