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On 19 June 2025, CNIL published two additional “how-to-sheets” on artificial intelligence, one on legitimate interest and the other on the collection of data via web scraping. These documents aim to clarify the rules...more
On 19 June 2025, CNIL published two additional “how-to-sheets” on artificial intelligence, one on the legitimate interest and the other on the collection of data via web scraping. These documents aim to clarify the rules...more
On June 4, 2025, Reddit, Inc. (“Reddit”) filed suit against Anthropic, PBC (“Anthropic”) in the Superior Court of California, alleging that Anthropic scraped and commercially exploited Reddit user data—including deleted...more
The power of large language models (LLMs) that enables generative AI derives from vast quantities of data. Much of this data comes from scraping all forms of content from the internet. Despite the benefits, this practice...more
The European Union’s AI Act is now in effect. Officially entering into force on August 1, 2024, the regulation has begun reshaping the artificial intelligence landscape across Europe. While some of its key prohibitions will...more
As the world’s premier blog and go-to source for insightful, pithy commentary on the law and business of social media (EDITOR’S NOTE: this claim has not been verified), the team at Socially Aware feels socially responsible to...more
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more
Character Technologies has been hit with two lawsuits, including a wrongful death suit (among other claims), in less than two months over its popular Character.ai chatbot. The first was filed in the U.S. District Court for...more
OpenAI finds itself embroiled in another major copyright infringement lawsuit — this time in Canada. Similar to cases filed by major news organizations in the United States, a group of Canada’s biggest news and media...more
In alignment with the ongoing concerns from several European data protection authorities publishing guidelines on data scrapping (i.e., the Dutch DPA, the Italian DPA and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office), the Global...more
Part 1: 5 Essential safeguards for website operators - In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, data scraping is a hot topic. The copying of online text, images and videos has beneficial use cases (e.g....more
We have previously reported on the Jobiak case which raises the interesting issue of whether an AI-scraped job database is subject to copyright protection and is infringed. We were hoping that the court would make substantive...more
Sixteen data protection authorities recently confirmed that controllers must protect their properties from web scraping. And that includes web scraping for the purpose of training AI....more
Image Alex Shandro It appears that the debate surrounding the UK’s Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception is about to reignite. TDM exceptions are key to assessing the legality of training generative AI models, and to...more
On September 27, 2024, the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Hamburg, a court of first instance (the “Court”), dismissed a cease-and-desist claim by the photographer Robert Kneschke against LAION e. V. that the scraping of his...more
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following...more
By now, we all know that Generative AI models are trained on massive amounts of data, much of which is collected from the Internet, as well as other sources. And we also know that Gen AI is being used to generate massive...more
Selected U.S. Privacy and Cyber Updates - New York AG Seeks Comments on Rulemaking for Minors’ Online Protection Laws - On August 1, 2024, New York Attorney General Letitia James issued two advanced notices of proposed...more
As the prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to rise, complex questions regarding the regulation of AI data scraping remain relevant to both website owners and web data collection companies. Though many...more
Plaintiff’s attorneys have filed a wave of lawsuits against various AI tools under a variety of legal theories. Most have had no success so far. Many of the asserted claims have been dismissed for lack of sufficiently pleaded...more
The recent California district court decision dismissing the complaint in X Corp. v. Bright Data Ltd. could have significant implications for companies that rely on their terms of use to prohibit unauthorized “data scraping”...more
A pending lawsuit raises an interesting copyright infringement question – does scraping an AI-generated database of job listings constitute copyright infringement?...more