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Kneschke v LAION

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Case Information
Case name Robert Kneschke v. LAION e.V.[1]
Court Hamburg Regional Court; Hamburg Higher Regional Court; Federal Court of Justice[1]
Docket 310 O 227/23; 5 U 104/24; I ZR 281/25[1]
Filed Not identified in the sources reviewed.
Judge(s) Not identified in the sources reviewed.
Plaintiffs Robert Kneschke[1]
Defendants LAION e.V.[1]
Case type Civil copyright proceeding[1]
Claims / issues Copyright; text and data mining; research exception; machine-readable rights reservation[1]
Status September 3, 2026: BGH hearing held without a decision, according to LAION’s counsel. Later disposition not verified.[1]

Robert Kneschke v. LAION e.V. concerns temporary reproduction of a photograph when building the LAION-5B image-text dataset.[1]

Claims and procedural history

LAION’s counsel reports that the Hamburg Regional Court dismissed the claim on September 27, 2024, and the Higher Regional Court affirmed on December 10, 2025. The dispute concerns text-and-data-mining exceptions and rights reservations.[1]

Counsel’s account of the September 3, 2026 BGH hearing describes preliminary discussion of those issues and a possible reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union. It reports no judgment that day; preliminary observations are not a final holding.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 LAION counsel’s dated hearing and procedural statements, September 2026
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