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Like Company v. Google (C-250/25, reference to the CJEU)

Court of Justice of the EU (reference from the Budapest-környéki Törvényszék) · 2025-04-03 · Apex court · Ongoing

Later historyPending at the Court of Justice.

Case C-250/25, Like Company v Google Ireland

Liability for AI outputs

Is an AI provider liable when outputs copy protected works?

No position

The first AI and copyright case before the EU Court of Justice: is a chatbot answer a reproduction?

Why hereNot placed on the scale: it takes no position on this question.

Holding

A Hungarian press publisher says Google's Gemini reproduced and summarised its articles. The Hungarian court asks the Court of Justice whether training and running a large language model, and the answers it gives, are acts of reproduction or communication to the public, and how the text and data mining exception and press publishers' rights apply.

Its answer will bind every EU court on AI training and outputs; until then, national courts decide alone.

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