Editing Openai/6924739c-2300-800e-9743-65c152c213f1 (section)

===== What happened =====
* Photographer sued LAION over use of images scraped from the web and incorporated into an AI training dataset.
* The Hamburg court held that reproductions for training could fall under Germany’s TDM exception for scientific research (Section 60d UrhG, implementing DSM Art. 3), and that AI training counts as TDM.

Relevance
* One of the first court decisions squarely addressing AI training and TDM in Europe.
* Shows a judicial approach that: - Accepts AI training as TDM; - Uses statute-based exceptions rather than judge-made fair use; - Still leaves room for rightholder opt-outs and limits (especially when outputs reproduce works).

A U.S. court could look to this as a contrast model: in the EU, statutory exceptions + opt-outs are doing work that in the U.S. is being asked of fair use.