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UK and German perspectives on AI and copyright

Online Online
27 November 2025

Our webinar recapped the recent UK and German cases at the intersection of AI and copyright law, Getty Images v Stability AI and GEMA v OpenAI. The discussion examined how the courts have approached the key issues and what the rulings mean for businesses, legal teams, and policymakers.

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What we covered:

  • a breakdown of the Getty Images v Stability AI judgment
  • the evolving legal framework for AI training on copyrighted content
  • what this means for ongoing litigation in Germany and the US?

The webinar took a practical, comparative look at emerging themes from these decisions, focusing on three core areas:

Training

Does the act of training AI models on copyrighted material amount to infringement and how does the text and data mining exception apply?

Memorisation

What have courts said about the retention of copyrighted works within AI models? Is there memorisation? If so, does it constitute copying under copyright law? If not, can there still be infringement?  

Output

Does AI-generated content infringe copyright, and who is liable when it does?

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Adam Rendle

Adam Rendle

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Xuyang Zhu

Xuyang Zhu

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Malek Barudi

Dr. Malek Barudi, M.Jur. (Oxford)

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